The Kunming Military Region was a

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of the People's Liberation Army, established in December 1954 or 1955 and disestablished during the 1980s. It was incorporated within the

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. In the 1954 reorganization that established 13 Military Regions,

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was given command of the Kunming MR and

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was made deputy commander. Later Qin became commander of the region (1960–67). In March 1967, the

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identified some 35 field corps, of which two, the

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and 14th, were within the Kunming MR. In late December 1978 or early January 1979, ahead of the 1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war, the PLA established the Southern Front to direct the Kunming and

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moved from command of the

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to become deputy commander of the Southern Front and commander of the Kunming Military Region. In May 1979, the "May 7th cadre school" of the Kunming Military Region became the Independent Division of Yunnan Provincial Military District, as a result of the Sino-Vietnamese war earlier that year.*中国人民解放军各步兵师沿革，http://blog.sina.com.cn/s/blog_a3f74a990101cp1q.html In December 1982 it became the 250th Army Division, part of the

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