83rd Group Army

83rd Group Army
第八十三集团军
Country People's Republic of China
Allegiance Chinese Communist Party
Branch People's Liberation Army Ground Force
TypeGroup army
Part ofCentral Theater Command
Garrison/HQXinxiang, Henan
EngagementsNorthern Expedition
Long March
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Chinese Civil War
Korean War
Sino-Indian War
Vietnam War
Sino-Vietnamese War
Commanders
Current
commander
Major General Xie Zenggang[2]
Political CommissarMajor General Wang Xinmin[1]
Notable
commanders
Ye Ting
Zhu De
Yang Dezhi
Su Yu
Xiao Ke
Yang Chengwu
Huang Yongsheng
Deng Hua
Ding Sheng
Insignia
NATO Map Symbol

The 83rd Group Army (Chinese: 第八十三集团军; pinyin: Dì Bāshísān Jítuánjūn), Unit 31679, formerly the 54th Group Army, is a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Forces (PLAGF). The 83rd Group Army is one of thirteen total group armies of the PLAGF, the largest echelon of ground forces in the People's Republic of China, and one of three assigned to the nation's Central Theater Command.[3]

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  3. ^ Burke, Edmund J. (4 February 2019). "Coming to a (New) Theater Near You: Command, Control, and Forces" (PDF). National Defense University Press. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 January 2022.