Shenyang Military Region
The Shenyang Military Region (simplified Chinese: 沈阳军区; traditional Chinese: 瀋陽軍區; pinyin: shěnyáng jūnqū 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 form Military Districts.
The Shenyang Military Region has been left with unchanged boundaries since the late 1960s. It is bordered internally by the Beijing Military Region to the west. Externally, it is bordered by North Korea to the south east and the Russian Far East to the north.
Analysts suggest that it's the second most important military region next to the Beijing Military Region.[1]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies lists the formation with an estimated 250,000 personnel, three group armies, and two armoured, one mechanised, four motorised, and one artillery division.[2] It also lists two armoured, five motorised, three artillery, four anti-aircraft and one anti-tank brigades with the formation.
Known formations and units include the 16th Group Army, with three divisions, including an armoured division, in Jilin, the 23rd Group Army headquartered at Harbin, and the 39th Group Army in Liaoning.
[edit] Current Officers[3]
- Zhang Youxia (Commander), since October 2007
- Liu Yahong (Deputy Commander) since April 2004
- Shi Xiangyuan (Deputy Commander) since December 2006
- Song Caiwen (Deputy Commander) since December 2005
- Zhou Liaqiang (Deputy Commander) since July 2004
- Hou Shusen (Chief-of-Staff) Since December 2005
- Huang Xianzhong (Political Officer), since December 2005
- Pan Ruiji (Deputy Political Commissar ) since August 2005
- Zhang Tiejian (Deputy Political Commissar ) since August 2001
- Wang Hongyao (Political Department Director) Since January 2008
[edit] References and sources
- ^ http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/world/china/shenyang-mr.htm
- ^ International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2006, p.266
- ^ http://www.giga-hamburg.de/dl/download.php?d=/content/ias/archiv/cds/cds_0805.pdf, p. 25.
- 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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