The People's Liberation Army Ground Force is the land-based service branch of the People's Liberation Army and the largest and oldest branch of the entire Chinese armed forces. The PLAGF can trace its lineage from 1927 as the Chinese Red Army;however,it was not officially established until 1948.
Group armies or army groups or combined corps,which are military formations of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force of China.
The Lanzhou Military Region was one of seven military regions in the People's Republic of China. It directed all People's Liberation Army and People's Armed Police forces in Xinjiang,Qinghai,Gansu,Ningxia,Shaanxi,and Ngari Prefecture in northwest Tibet. It was headquartered in Lanzhou in Gansu Province. It is bordered to the south by the Chengdu Military Region,and to the north by Mongolia,the Altai Republic,which is a political subdivision of the Russian Federation,and Kazakhstan. This region is now part of the Western Theater Command due to the military reforms of 2015.
In the People's Republic of China,theater commands are joint commands responsible for developing strategy,plans,tactics,and policy specific to their assigned area of responsibility. Currently,the PRC subdivides the nation into five theater commands,Eastern,Southern,Western,Northern,and Central to provide the Central Military Commission (CMC) of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) extensive,though not exclusive,command authority over the assigned region.
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.
Longhai Campaign (陇海战役),also known as the Campaign along the Longhai Railway (陇海路战役),was a campaign launched against the nationalists by the communists during Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era. The campaign was a coordinated offensive in support of the other two campaigns the Communists launched against the nationalists,namely,the Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket and the Central Jiangsu Campaign. Longhai Campaign resulted in the communist victory,achieving the Communists objective of relieving the pressure on their comrades in the other two campaigns this one supported,enabling those in the Campaign of the North China Plain Pocket to successfully escape from the nationalists and those in the Central Jiangsu Campaign to also score a huge victory over the nationalists.
Dingtao Campaign (定陶战役) was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists during Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era,and resulted in the communist victory.
Zhengtai Campaign was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era,and resulted in the communist victory.
Lüliang campaign (吕梁战役),also called Southwestern Shanxi campaign (晋西南战役),was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists in Lüliang region in southwestern Shanxi during the Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era,and resulted in the communist victory.
Campaign along the Southern Section of the Datong-Puzhou Railway (同蒲路南段战役) was a campaign fought between the nationalists and the communists during the Chinese Civil War in the post-World War II era and resulted in the communist victory.
The Weixian–Guangling–Nuanquan Campaign (蔚广暖战役) was a campaign fought in Wei (蔚) County and Warm Spring of Chahar (province) and Guanling (广灵) of Shanxi,and it was a clash between the communists and the former nationalists turned Japanese puppet regime force who rejoined the nationalists after World War II. The battle was one of the Chinese Civil War in the immediate post World War II era,and resulted in communist victory. This campaign was part of the General Counteroffensive in Shanxi-Chahar (province)-Hebei.
The Houma Campaign (侯马战役) or Houma Counteroffensive (侯马反击战) was a series of battles fought between the nationalists and the communists during Chinese Civil War in the post World War II era,and resulted in the communist victory.
Liu Zihou was a Communist revolutionary leader and politician of the People's Republic of China. He served as Governor of Hubei and Hebei provinces,and as the top leader of Hebei during the Cultural Revolution,but was ousted from his positions after he opposed the reforms of Deng Xiaoping. He was a protégéof Li Xiannian,one of China's top leaders.
The 28th Group Army was an army corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army that existed from 1949 to 1998. From 1952 to 1971,the 28th Army was based in Putian,Fujian and belonged to the Fujian Military Region. From 1971 to 1998,this army corps belonged to the Beijing Military Region and was based in Shanxi Province,initially in Houma and then in Datong. At the time of its dissolution in 1998,the 28th Army was composed of the 82nd,83rd and 205th Infantry Divisions,the 7th Armored Division,an artillery brigade,an anti-aircraft brigade,an engineer regiment,a communication regiment and a reconnaissance battalion. The army corps’unit ID number was 51366.
Li Zhimin(Chinese:李志民or 李凤瑞or 李明阶;pinyin:LǐZhìmín or LǐFèngruìor LǐMíngjiē;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.
The Central Theater Command is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army of China,and was founded on 1 February 2016. Its predecessors were the Beijing Military Region and Jinan Military Region.
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.
Meng Zhongkang is a former Chinese army officer. He holds the rank of major general (Shaojiang) in the People's Liberation Army Ground Force. As of September 2019,he was under investigation by the China's top anti-corruption agency. Previously he served as political commissar of Jiangsu Military District and a member of the Standing Committee of the CPC Jiangsu Provincial Committee.
The Central Theater Command Ground Force is the ground force under the Central Theater Command. Its headquarters is in Shijiazhuang,Hebei. The current commander is Fan Chengcai and the current political commissar is Zhou Wanzhu.
Bai Lü is a lieutenant general in the People's Liberation Army of China. He was a member of the 19th Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI). He was a representative of the 19th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party.
