The 67th Group Army was a

military formation Military organization or military organisation is the structuring of the armed forces of a State (polity), state so as to offer such military capability as a military policy, national defense policy may require. In some countries paramilitary ...

of the People's Liberation Army that existed from the civil war era until the disarmament of 1999. In its last years it was part of the

Jinan Military Region The Jinan Military Region was a PLA Military Region located in the east of the People's Republic of China, covering the Shandong and Henan Provinces, which also formed military districts. It appears that Yang Dezhi was one of the first commander ...

with its headquarters at

Zibo Zibo (, ) is a prefecture-level city in central Shandong province, China. It borders the provincial capital Jinan to the west, Tai'an to the southwest, Linyi to the south, Weifang to the east, Dongying to the northeast, and Binzhou to the ...

.Dennis J. Blasko, "PLA Ground Forces: Moving towards a Smaller, More Rapidly Deployable, Modern Combined Arms Force," The PLA as Organization, ed. James C. Mulvenon and Andrew N.D. Yang (Santa Monica, CA: RAND, 2002), 331.

History

The predecessor of the 67th group army was the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji military district. After the victory against Japan, it was reorganized into the Second Column of the Jin-Cha-Ji region.

Guo Tianmin Guo Tianmin (; 1905 – 26 May 1970) was a general in the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic of China from Hubei. He was a descendant of the Tang dynasty general Guo Ziyi. Early life Guo had his primary education in the prov ...

(later

Yang Dezhi Yang Dezhi (; January 13, 1911 – October 25, 1994) was a Chinese general and politician. He was senior military officer in the North China (or 5th) Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and commander in China during the Sino–Vietnamese ...

) served as commander,

Li Zhimin Li Zhimin (; July 9, 1906 – November 16, 1987) was a general of the People's Liberation Army from Liuyang, Hunan. Li was the former political commissar and director for the Political Department of the Chinese People's Volunteers. Li joined the ...

was the political commissar. During the civil war, it participated in the main fighting in North China. In June 1951, it entered Korea under the command of Li Xiang, with Commissar Kuang Fuzhao, and the 199th, 200th, and 201st Divisions.Chinese Military Science Academy 2000b, p. 559. In the summer of 1953, during the counterattacks, he took the position of the position and repulsed the enemy's attack. In the 1980s, participated in the

Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–90 Sino-Vietnamese is often used to mean: * Sino-Vietnamese vocabulary, the portion of the Vietnamese vocabulary of Chinese origin or using of morphemes of Chinese origin. People of Chinese origin in Vietnam: * Hoa people or "Overseas Chinese" * Ngá ...

, and the army's 199th Division achieved large fighting results. The army was dissolved in 1999. In Dennis Blasko's 2002 RAND chapter, he wrote that the army headquarters (the 54862 Unit) in

, Shandong, had been disbanded, and the 199th Division (54871 Unit) had been resubordinated to the 26th Group Army, 'as other 67GA units may have been.'

References

*Chinese Military Science Academy (2000b), History of War to Resist America and Aid Korea (抗美援朝战争史) (in Chinese), Volume III, Beijing: Chinese Military Science Academy Publishing House, {{Corps and Armies of the People's Liberation Army Field armies of the People's Liberation Army Military units and formations disestablished in 1999