Zhang Wentai (Chinese: 张文台; born April 1940) is a general (shangjiang) of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

[2] He enlisted in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in December 1958, and joined the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) in September 1960.

He became political commissioner of the People's Liberation Army General Logistics Department in October 2002, and served until June 2005.

In December 2005, he was made vice chairperson of the National People's Congress Environment Protection and Resources Conservation Committee, a position he held until March 2013.

His son-in-law, Chen Jie [zh], political commissar of the 42nd Group Army and deputy political commissar of the Southern Theater Command Ground Force, suicided by taking sleeping pills in August 2016.