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The Central Military Band of the People's Liberation Army of China at the Great Hall of the People. The band is a common performer of the military anthem of the PLA at ceremonial protocol events. The March of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was adopted as the military anthem by the Central Military Commission on 25 July 1988. [255]
t. e. The People's Liberation Army Ground Force[ a ] (PLAGF), or the PLA Army, [ 3 ] is the land-based service branch of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), and also its largest and oldest branch. The PLAGF can trace its lineage from 1927 as the Chinese Red Army; however, it was not officially established until 1948.
As military forces around the world are constantly changing in size, no definitive list can ever be compiled. All of the 172 countries listed here, especially those with the highest number of total soldiers such as the two Koreas and Vietnam, include a large number of paramilitaries, civilians and policemen in their reserve personnel.
The Chinese Army Today: Tradition and Transformation for the 21st Century (2012) excerpt and text search; Cole, Bernard D. The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed., 2010) Fisher, Richard. China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach (2010) excerpt and text search; Fravel, M. Taylor.
Group army (military unit) Group armies (simplified Chinese: 集团军; traditional Chinese: 集團軍; pinyin: jítuán jūn) or army groups or combined corps, [1][2] are corps -level [3] military formations of the People's Liberation Army Ground Force of China. Despite what the name suggests, current Group Armies are not army-level formations ...
The cover the of the 2023 China Military Power Report. The China Military Power Report (abbr. CMPR), officially the Military and Security Developments Involving the People's Republic of China, is an annual report produced by the United States Department of Defense for the United States Congress that provides estimates, forecasts, and analysis ...
In 2016, Chinese paratroopers came in third place in the International Army Games which took place in Russia. [17] In 2017, a Chinese paratrooper team placed first in the Airborne Platoon contest at the International Army Games-2017. [18] The Chinese airborne troops won first place in 11 out of 12 events. [19]
The military modernization program of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) which began in the late 1970s had three major focuses. First, under the political leadership of 3rd paramount leader Deng Xiaoping, the military became disengaged from civilian politics and, for the most part, resumed the political quiescence that characterized its pre ...