67th Group Army

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The 67th Group Army was a military formation of the People's Liberation Army that existed from the civil war era until the disarmament of 1999. In its last years it was part of the Jinan Military Region with its headquarters at Zibo. [1]

Peoples Liberation Army combined military forces of the Peoples Republic of China


The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the armed forces of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and its founding and ruling political party, the Communist Party of China (CPC). The PLA consists of five professional service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force, and the Strategic Support Force. Units around the country are assigned to one of five Theater commands by geographical location. The PLA is the world's largest military force and constitutes the second largest defence budget in the world. It is one of the fastest modernising military powers in the world and has been termed as a potential military superpower, with significant regional defense and rising global power projection capabilities. China is also the third largest arms exporter in the world.

Jinan Military Region Former military region of China

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Zibo Prefecture-level city in Shandong, China

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History

The predecessor of the 67th group army was the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji military district. After the victory against Japan, it was reorganized into the Second Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji region. Guo Tianmin (later Yang Dezhi) served as commander, Li Zhimin was the political commissar.

Guo Tianmin

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Yang Dezhi Chinese politician

Yang Dezhi was a Chinese general and politician. He was senior military officer in the North China Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and commander in China during the Sino–Vietnamese War.

Li Zhimin

Li Zhimin (李志民 or 李凤瑞 or 李明阶; pinyin:Lǐ Zhìmín or Lǐ Fèngruì or Lǐ Míngjiē; July 9, 1906 – November 16, 1987), was a general of the People's Liberation Army from Liuyang, Hunan. Li was the former political commissar and director for the Political Department of the Chinese People's Volunteers. Li was an outstanding political leader in the PLA.

During the civil war, it participated in the main fighting in North China.

In June 1951, [2] it entered Korea under the command of Li Xiang, with Commissar Kuang Fuzhao, and the 199th, 200th, and 201st Divisions. [3] In the summer of 1953, during the counterattacks, he took the position of the position and repulsed the enemy's attack.

In the 1980s, participated in the Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–90, and the army's 199th Division achieved large fighting results.

The army was dissolved in 1999. In Dennis Blasko's 2002 RAND chapter, he wrote that the army headquarters (the 54862 Unit) in Zibo, Shandong, had been disbanded, and the 199th Division (54871 Unit) had been resubordinated to the 26th Group Army, 'as other 67GA units may have been.' [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Dennis J. Blasko, "PLA Ground Forces: Moving towards a Smaller, More Rapidly Deployable, Modern Combined Arms Force," The PLA as Organization, ed. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002), 331.
  2. ↑ Hu & Ma 1987, p. 90.
  3. ↑ Chinese Military Science Academy 2000b, p. 559.
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