Nanjing Military Region

Nanjing Military Region
Nanjing Military Region (highlighted)
Simplified Chinese	南京军区
Traditional Chinese	南京軍區
Transcriptions Standard Mandarin Hanyu Pinyin Nánjīng Jūnqū

The Nanjing Military Region (Chinese: 南京军区) is one of the seven military command regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai. It also covers Taiwan, which is claimed by the People's Republic of China but administered by the Republic of China. The current head of the region is Cai Yingting.

The International Institute for Strategic Studies lists the formation with an estimated 250,000 personnel, three group armies, two armoured, one mechanised infantry, three motorised infantry, and one artillery division. There are also one armoured, four motorised infantry, two artillery, three anti-aircraft brigades, plus an anti-tank regiment.

The headquarters for the East Sea Fleet are located within the region, at Ningbo.

List of commanders

General Xu Shiyou

• Xu Shiyou
• Ding Sheng
• Nie Fengzhi
• Xiang Shouzhi
• Gu Hui
• Chen Bingde
• Liang Guanglie
• Zhu Wenquan
• Zhao Keshi, 2007−12
• Cai Yingting, 2012−present

Nickname

Organizations affiliated with the Nanjing Military Region often use the nickname "frontline" (Chinese: 前线; pinyin: qiánxiàn; literally: "front line"), including the Frontline Performance Troupe (Chinese: 前线文工团) and the People's Frontline (Chinese: 人民前线) newspaper.

Sources

• International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Military Balance 2005-6, Routledge, 2005, p.272