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| Pingjin campaign | |||||||||
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| Part of the Chinese Civil War | |||||||||
 People's Liberation Army enters Beiping | |||||||||
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| Belligerents | |||||||||
| Commanders and leaders | |||||||||
 Fu Zuoyi  Chen Changjie (POW) Guo Jingyun † |
 Lin Biao Luo Ronghuan Nie Rongzhen | ||||||||
| Strength | |||||||||
| 600,000[citation needed] | 1,000,000[citation needed] | ||||||||
| Casualties and losses | |||||||||
| ~520,000[citation needed] (including non-combat losses) | 39,000 (PRC sources)[citation needed] | ||||||||
The Pingjin campaign (simplified Chinese: 平津战役; traditional Chinese: 平津戰役; pinyin: Píngjīn Zhànyì), also known as the Battle of Pingjin and also officially known in Chinese Communist historiography as the Liberation of Beijing and Tianjin[1] was part of the three major campaigns launched by the People's Liberation Army during the late stage of the Chinese Civil War against the Government of the Republic of China. It began on 29 November 1948 and ended on 31 January 1949, lasting a total of 64 days. This campaign marked the end of Nationalist dominance in the North China Plain. The term Pingjin refers to the cities Beiping (now Beijing) and Tianjin.
- ^ Brown, Jeremy; Johnson, Matthew D. (13 October 2015). Maoism at the Grassroots: Everyday Life in China's Era of High Socialism. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674287204.