77th Group Army

People's Liberation Army Ground Force
77th Group Army
第七十七集团军
Active1985–present
Country People's Republic of China
Allegiance Chinese Communist Party
Branch People's Liberation Army Ground Force
TypeGroup army
Part ofWestern Theater Command
Garrison/HQChongzhou,Chengdu,Sichuan
EngagementsLong March
Second Sino-Japanese War
World War II
Chinese Civil War
First Indochina War
Sino-Indian War
Vietnam War
Sino-Vietnamese War
Commanders
Current
commander
Major General Wang Suocheng
Political CommissarMajor General Kuang Ming
Notable
commanders
Chen Geng
Xie Fuzhi
Zhou Xihan
Liu Youguang
Lin Biao
Insignia
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The 77th Group Army (Chinese: 第七十七集团军; pinyin: Dì Qīshíqī Jítuánjūn), Unit 31667, formerly the 13th Group Army, is a military formation of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Ground Force (PLAGF). The 77th 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 two assigned to the nation's Western Theater Command.[1]

  1. ^ Burke, Edmund J. (February 4, 2019). "Coming to a (New) Theater Near You: Command, Control, and Forces" (PDF). National Defense University Press.