Chengdu Military Region

Chengdu Military Region
Further information: PLA Military Region

The Chengdu Military Region (simplified Chinese: 成都军区; traditional Chinese: 成都軍區; pinyin: chéngdū jūnqū is a military administrative command located in the southwest of the People's Republic of China, covering Chongqing, Sichuan, Yunnan, Guizhou, and the Xizang/Tibet Autonomous Region. It includes some of the area previously within the Kunming Military Region and has its headquarters in Chengdu.

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Organization

The Military Region includes two Group Armies (the 13th and 14th), the Tibetan 52nd and 53d Mountain Brigades, the 149th Motorised Infantry Division at Emei, Sichuan (near Mount Emei), 2 Mobile Armed Police Divisions (38th and 41st), and the 2nd Army Aviation Regiment at Chengdu.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies attributes the region with some 180,000 personnel, with four motorised infantry divisions, one artillery division, two armoured brigades, one artillery brigade, and two anti-aircraft brigades.

The military districts that fall within the Chengdu Military Region are:

  • Sichuan Provincial Military District
  • Tibet Military District
  • Guizhou Provincial Military District

Current Officers[1]

  • Li Shiming (Commander), since September 2007
Fan Xiaoguang (Deputy Commander) since June 2004
Fang Dianrong (Deputy Commander) since August 2003
Gui Quanzhi (Deputy Commander) since September 2002
Li Zuocheng (Deputy Commander) since January 2008
Lu Dengming (Deputy Commander) since March 2008
Meng Jinxi (Deputy Commander) since July 2001 (CC member)
Ai Husheng (Chief-of-Staff) Since October 2007
  • Zhang Haiyang (Political Officer), since December 2005
Duan Luding (Deputy Political Commissar ) since July 2007
Hu Yongzhu (Deputy Political Commissar ) since December 2006
Ma Zilong (Deputy Political Commissar ) since April 2001
Qu Quansheng (Deputy Political Commissar ) since July 2000
Zhao Kaizeng (Deputy Political Commissar ) since February 2008
Wu Changde (Political Department Director) since July 2007

Sources and External Links

  • International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2006
  • Chapter 8, PLA Ground Forces, by Dennis J Blasko, in The People's Liberation Army as Organisation, RAND, CF182
  • www.sinodefence.com
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References

  1. ^ http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/ias/archiv/cds/cds_0805.pdf, p. 24.


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