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| Simplified Chinese | 南京军区 | ||||||
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TheNanjing Military Region (Chinese:南京军区) was one of the former sevenmilitary command regions for the ChinesePeople's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covered all military and armed police located inAnhui,Jiangsu,Zhejiang,Jiangxi,Fujian, andShanghai. It also coveredTaiwan, which is claimed by thePeople's Republic of China but administered by theRepublic of China. The final head of the region wasCai Yingting. This region is now part of theEastern Theater Command.
The60th Corps was active in the Nanjing Military Region until disbanded in late 1985.
In 2005, theInternational Institute for Strategic Studies listed the formation with an estimated 250,000 personnel, three group armies (1st,12th, and31st Group Armies), two armoured, one mechanised infantry, three motorised infantry, and one artillery division.[1] There were also one armoured, four motorised infantry, two artillery, three anti-aircraft brigades, plus an anti-tank regiment.
The headquarters for theEast Sea Fleet were located within the region, atNingbo.
Dennis J. Blasko's 'The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century' listed formations within the Nanjing MR as:[2]
Among listedPeople's Liberation Army Air Force units in the region before the transition to theEastern Theater Command were the3rd Fighter Division,10th Bomber Division, flying the H-6, the14th Fighter Division, the28th Attack Division, the29th Fighter Division, and the 3rd Independent Regiment.
The 32nd Air Division atRugao became the Military Region Air Force Training Base. In the early 1990s over 1000 surplus fighters were stored at Rugao.[3]
The 4th Air Corps was established in Shanghai in August 1952, though Whitson indicates that Nieh F'eng-chih took command of the 4th Air Corps in late 1950s. The unit was later changed to the Shanghai Command Post. In the early 1950s, two divisions from the29th Corps were transferred to the 4th Air Corps. In 1993, it became the Shanghai Base.
The5th Air Corps moved toHangzhou by 1954, but was abolished in April 1976.[4] Its command staff were moved toKunming and the Kunming MRAF CP retitled the 5th Air Corps.
Organizations affiliated with the Nanjing Military Region often used the nickname "frontline" (Chinese:前线;pinyin:qiánxiàn;lit. 'front line'), including the Frontline Performance Troupe (Chinese:前线文工团) and thePeople's Frontline (Chinese:《人民前线》) newspaper.