The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ( ) is the unified military organization of all land, sea, and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China. The People's Liberation Army's insignia consists of a roundel with a red star bearing the Chinese characters for "Eight One" referring to August 1 ( ), the date of the 1927 Nanchang Uprising. The PLA is one of the world's largest military forces, with approximately 7,000,000 members (see List of countries by number of total troops), and has the world's largest (active) standing army, with approximately 2.3 million members (see List of countries by number of active troops). The PLA comprises five main service branches consisting of the PLA Ground Force, PLA Navy (PLAN), PLA Air Force (PLAAF), Second Artillery Corps (strategic nuclear or missile force), and the People's Armed Police (PAP). Military service is compulsory, in theory, for all men who attain the age of 18; women may register for duty in the medical, veterinary, and other technical services. However, a draft has never been enforced due to large numbers of volunteers. Demobilized servicemen are carried in a ready reserve, which is reinforced by a standby reserve of veterans and by the militia. The PLA is formally under the command of the Central Military Commission of the CCP; there is also an identical commission in the government, but it has no clear independent functions. The Ministry of National Defense, which operates under the State Council, does not exercise any authority over the PLA and is far less powerful than the Central Military Commission. The ministry assures continuing CCP control over the armed forces, and its primary role is that of a liaison office with foreign militaries. The political and military leaderships has made a concerted effort to create a professional military force restricted to national defense and to the provision of assistance in domestic economic construction and emergency relief. This conception of the role of the PLA requires the promotion of specialized officers who can understand modern weaponry and handle combined arms operations. Troops around the country are stationed in seven military regions and more than 20 military districts. (more)
Genres: politics, science
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People's Liberation Army Navy:
The People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) (Simplified Chinese: 中国人民解放军海军; Traditional Chinese: 中國人民解放軍海軍; Pinyin: Zhōngguó Rénmín Jiěfàngjūn Hǎijūn) is the naval branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the military of the People's Republic of Ch
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People's Liberation Army Air Force:
The People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) ( ) is the aviation branch of the People's Liberation Army, the military of the People's Republic of China. It is the largest air force in Asia. It currently consists of approximately 250,000 personnel a
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People's Liberation Army Ground Force:
The People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF) (中国人民解放军陆军) is the land-based service branch of the People's Liberation Army, and deploys over 8,000 tanks, 4,000 armored vehicles, and 25,000 artillery pieces. With its 1,6 million personnel, it is t
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State Council of the People's Republic of China:
The State Council ( ), which is largely synonymous with the Central People's Government ( ), is the chief administrative authority of the People's Republic of China. It is chaired by the Premier and includes the heads of each governmental department
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Ministry of National Defense of the People's Republic of China:
The Ministry of National Defense (MND) (中国国防部) of the People's Republic of China is a ministry under the State Council. It is headed by the Minister of National Defense. The MND was set up according to a decision adopted by the 1st Session of the 1st
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Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China):
The Central Military Commission (CMC) ( ) refers to one of two bodies within the People's Republic of China, either to the Central Military Commission of the People's Republic of China, a state organ, or the Central Military Commission of the Communi
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List of countries by number of active troops:
This is a list of countries sorted by the total number of active troops where the military manpower of a country is measured by the total amount of active troops within the command of that country. Reserved forces which can aid a depleted active mili
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Nanchang Uprising:
The Nanchang Uprising ( ) (August 1, 1927) was the first major Kuomintang-Communist engagement of the Chinese Civil War. The Kuomintang (KMT, or Nationalist Party) established a ‘Revolutionary Committee’ at Nanchang to plan the spark that was expecte
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List of countries by number of total troops:
This is a list of countries sorted by the number of total troops within the command of that country, including reserve forces that can aid a depleted active military and/or paramilitary. These numbers are approximations; military forces around the wo
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Second Artillery Corps:
The Second Artillery Corps (SAC) (第二炮兵部队) is the strategic missile forces of the People's Republic of China. The SAC is a major division of the People's Liberation Army that controls China's nuclear and conventional strategic missiles. China's total
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Timeline of Cox Report controversy:
The Timeline of Cox Report controversy is a chronology of information relating to the People's Republic of China's (PRC) alleged nuclear espionage against the United States detailed in the Congressional Cox Report. The timeline also includes document
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Titan Rain:
Titan Rain was the U.S. government's designation given to a series of coordinated attacks on American computer systems since 2003. The attacks were labeled as Chinese in origin, although their precise nature (i.e., state-sponsored espionage, corporat
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Military:
Military refers to the people of an organisation authorised by its nation to use force, usually including use of weapons, in defending its independence by repulsing actual or perceived threats. As an adjective the term military is used to specificall
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Communist Party of China:
The Communist Party of China (CPC) ( ), also known as the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), is the founding and ruling political party of the People's Republic of China and the world's largest political party. Its paramount position as the supreme polit
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People's Armed Police:
The People's Armed Police Force (Abbreviation: PAP; Simplified Chinese: 中国人民武装警察部队, Traditional Chinese: 中國人民武裝警察部隊; pinyin: Rénmín Wǔzhuāng Jǐngchá Bùduì) is a military police force primarily responsible for law enforcement within the People's Repub
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Long March:
The Long March ( ) was a massive military retreat undertaken by the Red Armies of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army, to evade the pursuit of the Kuomintang (KMT or Chinese Nationalist Party) army. There
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Beijing Military Region:
The Beijing Military Region is one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has administration of all military affairs within Beijing city, Tianjin city, Hebei province, Shanxi province, and Inner Mongolia Autonomous Reg
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Shenyang Military Region:
The Shenyang Military Region is one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has command and control of military and armed police forces in the three northeast provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning, which also f
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QBZ-95:
The QBZ-95 ( ) is an assault rifle manufactured by Arsenal 266, part of Norinco and Arsenal 296, under Jianshe Corp, China South for the People's Liberation Army, the armed forces of the People's Republic of China, Chinese People's Armed Police (para
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Type 96:
The Type 96 is the latest variant of China's second-generation main battle tank (MBT). Based on the Type 85-III design, the Type 96 entered service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) in 1997. As of 2005, an estimated 1,500 Type 96 tanks are curr
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Type 99:
The Type 99, also known as ZTZ-99 and WZ-123, developed from the Type 98G (in turn, a development of the Type 98), is a 3rd generation main battle tank (MBT) fielded by the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It is made to compete with modern western t
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Type 81 assault rifle:
The Chinese Type 81 Assault Rifle was the principal automatic rifle used by the People's Liberation Army from the mid-1980s until 1995. It incorporates elements of the Dragunov Sniper Rifle, SKS, and AK series rifles. The rifle is cosmetically based
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Nanjing Military Region:
The Nanjing Military Region is one of seven military command regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai. The current head
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People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison:
The People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison is a garrison of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) responsible for defence duties of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region since the sovereignty of Hong Ko
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People's Liberation Army General Staff Department:
The People's Liberation Army General Staff Department (中国人民解放军总参谋部) is the command organ and the headquarter for the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). It is under the absolute leadership of the Central Military Commission. Its duties include -
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People's Liberation Army Macau Garrison:
Since December 20, 1999, the defense of Macau has been the responsibility of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), which stations between 500-600 troops in the Macau Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China, primarily as
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Liang Guanglie:
Liang Guanglie (Chinese: 梁光烈; born December 1940) is a general in the People's Liberation Army of China. Liang was born in Santai, Sichuan Province of China in 1940. He joined the army in January 1958, and joined the Communist Party of China in Novem
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QSZ-92:
The QSZ-92 Services Pistol (Chinese: 92式手槍; pinyin: Jiǔ Èr Shí Shoǔqiàng; literally "Pistol Type 92") is a semi-automatic pistol designed by Norinco and it is in limited service in the People's Liberation Army since the late 1990s.
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People's Liberation Army invasion of Tibet (1950–1951):
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) defeated the Tibetan army in a war at Chamdo on October 7 1950. This attack marked the beginning of Beijing’s campaign to integrate Tibet into People's Republic of China. This operation is labelled an invasion by th
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Chen Bingde:
Chen Bingde (Chinese: 陈炳德; born July 1941 in Nantong, Jiangsu) is a General in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China. He was the Director-General of the PLA's General Armaments Department until September 2007. In this p
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Chang Wanquan:
Chang Wanquan (Chinese: 常万全; January 1949 - ) is a general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China. He is the current director of the PLA General Armaments Department and a member of the Central Military Commission of
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Xu Qiliang:
Xu Qiliang (Chinese: 许其亮; March 1950 - ) is a general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China, a member of the Central Military Commission of the Communist Party of China (CPC), and the current commander of the People'
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Wu Shengli:
Wu Shengli (Chinese: 吴胜利; August 1945 - ) is a general in the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China.
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Modernization of the People's Liberation Army:
The military modernization program of the People's Liberation Army which began in the late 1970s had three major focuses. First, under the political leadership of Deng Xiaoping, the military became disengaged from civilian politics and, for the most
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Army:
An army (from Latin Armata "act of arming" via Old French armée), in the broadest sense, is the land-based armed forces of a nation. It may also include other branches of the military such as an air force. Within a national military force, the word A
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National Revolutionary Army:
The National Revolutionary Army (NRA) ( , sometimes shortened to 國軍 or National Army) was the party army of the Kuomintang (KMT) from 1925 until 1947, as well as the national army of the Republic of China during the KMT's period of party rule beginni
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People's Volunteer Army:
The Chinese People's Volunteer Army (PVA) ( ) was the army deployed by the Chinese government during the Korean War. Although most soldiers were previously members of the People's Liberation Army, the People's Volunteer Army was separately constitute
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Sino-Indian War:
The Sino-Indian War ( ; Hindi: भारत-चीन युद्ध Bhārat-Chīn Yuddh), also known as the Sino-Indian Border Conflict, was a war between People's Republic of China and India. The initial cause of the conflict was a disputed region of the Himalayan border i
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Eighth Route Army:
The Eighth Route Army ( ) was the larger of the two major Chinese communist forces that formed a unit of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China which fought the Japanese from 1937 to 1945. In contrast to most of the National Revolut
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Zhu De:
Zhū Dé ( , Wade-Giles: Chu Te, zi: Yùjiē 玉阶; December 1, 1886 – July 6, 1976) was a Chinese Communist military leader and statesman. He is regarded as the founder of the Chinese Red Army (the forerunner of the People's Liberation Army) and the tactic
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Type 59:
The Chinese Type 59 (Chinese industrial designation: WZ120) Main Battle Tank is a Chinese produced version of the ubiquitous Soviet T-54A tank. The first vehicles were produced in 1958 and it was accepted into service in 1959, with serial production
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Type 56 assault rifle:
The Type 56 assault rifle is a Chinese copy of the Kalashnikov AK-47, which has been manufactured since 1956. Produced by state factory 66 from 1956-73, then by NORINCO from 1973 onwards. Originally, the Type 56 was a direct copy of the third generat
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Second Taiwan Strait Crisis:
The Second Taiwan Strait Crisis, also called the 1958 Taiwan Strait Crisis, was a conflict that took place between the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the Republic of China (ROC) governments in which the PRC shelled the islands of Matsu and Quem
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South Sea Fleet:
The People's Republic of China's South Sea Fleet (SSF) was first established in late 1949. The flagship of the SSF is the AOR/AK Nanchang (953). Initially, the fleet's strength consisted mostly of former Kuomintang ships and personnel, which either d
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East Sea Fleet:
The East Sea Fleet was the first naval force formed by the People's Republic of China, on 23 April 1949, and was initially based at Shanghai. It has since been assigned to be part of the People's Liberation Army Navy and its headquarters have been mo
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Group Army:
A Group Army (集團軍), is a major form of Chinese military organization, and is equivalent to field army or army group in other militaries. A Group Army usually exercises command over two or more field armies, or several corps, and other lesser units. T
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General Political Department:
General Political Department (Chinese: 总政治部) is the chief political organ under Central Military Commission of CPC. It leads all political activities in the People's Liberation Army. Its former director-generals include: Liu Shaoqi, Luo Ronghuan, Tan
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General Logistics Department:
General Logistics Department (Chinese: 总后勤部) is a chief organ under Central Military Commission of CPC. It organizes and leads the logistics construction and safeguard of the People's Liberation Army. Its former directors include Yang Lisan (1949-53)
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Jing Zhiyuan:
Jing Zhiyuan (Traditional Chinese: 靖志遠; Simplified Chinese: 靖志远; Hanyu Pinyin: Jìng Zhìyuǎn) (b. 1944) is a general (Shang Jiang) in the Chinese People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China. His ancestors are from Linmu, in Shandong pro
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General Armaments Department:
General Armaments Department (Chinese: 总装备部) was founded in April 1998. It is a chief organ under Central Military Commission of CPC, responsible for People's Liberation Army's armaments.
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