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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 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.
The Shenyang Region adjoins the weak Russian Far East Military District, which now numbers only some 76,000 personnel with around four full-strength regiments and a number of other cadre formations.^[1] However there is a military limitation treaty and information disclosure agreement in place between the Russian Federation and the People's Republic of China.
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.

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Current Officers

References and Sources

Current Officers

★ MGEN Chang Wanquan (Commander)

★ LTGEN Jiang Futang (Political Officer)

References and Sources

1. Journal of Slavic Military Studies, 'The Russian Ground Forces: A Structural Status Examination', Vol. 18, No.2, 2005
2. International Institute for Strategic Studies, The Military Balance 2006, p.266


★ Chapter 8, PLA Ground Forces, by Dennis J Blasko, in The People's Liberation Army as Organisation, RAND, CF182

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