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Central Theater Command | |
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中部战区 | |
Founded | 1 February 2016 |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Allegiance | Chinese Communist Party |
Type | Theater Command |
Role | Command and control |
Size | 300,000 |
Part of |
Central Military Commission People's Liberation Army |
Headquarters | Beijing |
Motto(s) | 听党指挥、能打胜仗、作风优良 |
Website | Official website |
Commanders | |
Commander | General Huang Ming |
Political Commissar | General Xu Deqing |
Chief of Staff | General Jia Jiancheng |
Insignia | |
Sleeve insignia |
Central Theater Command | |||||||
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Simplified Chinese | 中部战区 | ||||||
Traditional Chinese | 中部戰區 | ||||||
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Executive departments |
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Special operations force |
Other troops |
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History of the Chinese military |
Military ranks of China |
The Central Theater Command is one of the five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army of China, [1] and was founded on 1 February 2016. [2] Its predecessors were the Beijing Military Region and Jinan Military Region. [3]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies attributes to the command of 300,000 personnel, consisting of three group armies 81st Group Army, 82nd Group Army, 83rd Group Army (Formerly 27th Army, 38th Army, and the 65th Army), two armoured divisions, one mechanised infantry division, five motorised divisions, one artillery division, three armoured, seven motorised infantry, four artillery, a total of five various anti-aircraft brigades, and one anti-tank regiment. [4] The command is also augmented by the PLA Beijing Garrison , which consists of the 1st Guard and the 3rd Guard Divisions, and the Beijing Garrison Honor Guard Battalion and Color Guard Company, both of them are charged with public duties, and is also home to the PLA Navy (PLAN) North Sea Fleet and the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) 10th Air Force Corps.
In addition to guarding the capital, the CTC is the main military theater command in charge of training key personnel for leadership positions through the numerous military academies in the region.[ citation needed]
The Central Theater Command's area of responsibility (AOR) consists of the previous Beijing Military Region, including the capital Beijing and the neighboring provinces and directly governed municipalities of Tianjin, Hebei, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan and Hubei. [5]
The command's primary responsibility is the defense of the nation's capital, Beijing, and it serves as the national strategic military reserve. [6]
Dressed in a winter camouflage uniform and flanked by the other members of the supreme Central Military Commission, Xi issued the call from a military base in the Central Theatre Command, one of the country's five military zones, as troops in 4,000 sites across the country took part in simultaneous drills in the armed forces' annual new year exercises on Wednesday.
A grand inauguration ceremony was held to mark the founding of the five theater commands of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) in Beijing on Feb. 1, 2016....and Han Weiguo and Yin Fanglong, commander and political commissar of the Central Theater Command....
[see map graphic for list of provinces]