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Eastern Theater Command Ground Force
The Eastern Theater Command Ground Force is the ground force under the Eastern Theater Command. Its headquarters is in Fuzhou, Fujian. The current commander is Kong Jun and the current political commissar is Zhang Hongbing. History The Eastern Theater Command Ground Force was officially established on 31 December 2015 with the troops of former Nanjing Military Region. Functional department * General Staff * Political Work Department * Logistics Department * Equipment department * Disciplinary Inspection Committee Direct units * * * Direct troops Group army * 71st Group Army (stations in Xuzhou, Jiangsu) * 72nd Group Army (stations in Huzhou, Zhejiang) * 73rd Group Army (stations in Xiamen, Fujian) Other army * First Brigade of Reconnaissance Intelligence * First Brigade of Information Support * First Brigade of Electronic Warfare * First Brigade of Long Range Rocket Artillery * 31st Brigade of Boat and Bridge Army * 301st Brigade of Coastal Defense Force (stat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serve The People
"Serve the People" () is a political slogan which first appeared in Mao-era China, and the motto of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). It originates from the title of a speech by Mao Zedong, delivered on 8 September 1944. The slogan also became very popular in the United States due to the strong Maoist influence on the New Left, especially among the Red Guard Party, the Black Panther Party and the Yellow Brotherhood of West Los Angeles. Origins Mao Zedong wrote this speech to commemorate the death of a PLA soldier, Zhang Side, a participant in the Long March who died in the collapse of a kiln when he worked in Yan'an. In the speech, he quoted a phrase written by the famous Han Dynasty historian Sima Qian: "Though death befalls all men alike, it may be heavy as Mount Tai or light as a feather" (人固有一死，或轻于鸿毛，或重于泰山). Mao continued: "To die for the people is weightier than Mount Tai, but to work for the fascists and die for the exploiters and opp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
72nd Group Army
7 (seven) is the natural number following 6 and preceding 8. It is the only prime number preceding a cube. As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion, mythology, superstition and philosophy. The seven Classical planets resulted in seven being the number of days in a week. It is often considered lucky in Western culture and is often seen as highly symbolic. Unlike Western culture, in Vietnamese culture, the number seven is sometimes considered unlucky. It is the first natural number whose pronunciation contains more than one syllable. Evolution of the Arabic digit In the beginning, Indians wrote 7 more or less in one stroke as a curve that looks like an uppercase vertically inverted. The western Ghubar Arabs' main contribution was to make the longer line diagonal rather than straight, though they showed some tendencies to making the digit more rectilinear. The eastern Arabs developed the digit fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
