The 9th Corps () was a military formation of the Chinese
People's Liberation Army
The People's Liberation Army (PLA) is the military of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and the People's Republic of China (PRC). It consists of four Military branch, services—People's Liberation Army Ground Force, Ground Force, People's ...
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 ( Chinese, 中華民國陸軍) also known as the ROC Army (ROCA); colloquially the Taiwanese Army ( Chinese, 台湾陆军) by western or mainland Chinese media, or commonly referred as the National Military Army ( Chi ...
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,
8th
Eighth is ordinal form of the number eight.
Eighth may refer to:
* One eighth, , a fraction, one of eight equal parts of a whole
* Eighth note (quaver), a musical note played for half the value of a quarter note (crotchet)
* Octave, an interval b ...
and
9th agriculture construction divisions of the
Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps
The Xinjiang Production and Construction Corps (新疆生产建设兵团; abbreviated as 新疆兵团, or XPCC in English), also known as ''Bingtuan'', trading with the external name China Xinjian Group, is a state-owned enterprise and parami ...
, 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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