People's Liberation Army Ground Force 77th Group Army | |
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第七十七集团军 | |
Active | 1985–present |
Country | People's Republic of China |
Allegiance | Chinese Communist Party |
Branch | People's Liberation Army Ground Force |
Type | Group army |
Part of | Western Theater Command |
Garrison/HQ | Chongzhou,Chengdu,Sichuan |
Engagements | Long 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 Commissar | Major 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]