The 9th Corps () was a military formation of the Chinese
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the principal military force of the People's Republic of China and the armed wing of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). The PLA consists of five service branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, ...
from the 1940s to the 1950s.
The 9th Corps was activated in September 1949 from defecting
Republic of China Army
The Republic of China Army (ROCA), previously known as the Chinese Nationalist Army or Nationalist Revolutionary Army and unofficially as the Taiwanese Army, is the largest branch of the Republic of China Armed Forces. An estimated 80% of the ...
42nd Reorganization Division.
The Corps was composed of
25th,
26th and
27th Divisions. From mid 1949 to 1950, the divisions were located north of Wusu, southwest of
Urumqi, and north of Kuqa and east of Korla, respectively.
[Xinjiang: China's Muslim Borderland
By S. Frederick Starr, 128.]
In April 1952, the headquarters of the 9th Corps was merged with the headquarters of the 22nd Army (
Tao Zhiyue
Tao Zhiyue (; 1892 – 26 December 1988) was a Chinese military officer and politician, lieutenant general of the National Revolutionary Army of the Republic of China, and a full general of the People's Liberation Army of the People's Republic o ...
's former Kuomintang command). In November 1952, the corps was inactivated.
In May 1953, 25th, 26th and 27th divisions from the corps were reorganized as
7th
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As an early prime number in the series of positive integers, the number seven has greatly symbolic associations in religion ...
,
8th
8 (eight) is the natural number following 7 and preceding 9.
In mathematics
8 is:
* a composite number, its proper divisors being , , and . It is twice 4 or four times 2.
* a power of two, being 2 (two cubed), and is the first number of t ...
and
9th
9 (nine) is the natural number following and preceding .
Evolution of the Arabic digit
In the beginning, various Indians wrote a digit 9 similar in shape to the modern closing question mark without the bottom dot. The Kshatrapa, Andhra and ...
agriculture construction divisions of the
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (), also known as XPCC or Bingtuan ("The Corps"), is a state-owned economic and Paramilitary forces of China, paramilitary organization in China, China's Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region (XUAR). ...
, respectively.
References
中国人民解放军历史上的70个军及其简史
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Military units and formations established in 1949
Military units and formations disestablished in 1952
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