Southern Theater Command Ground Force is the Chinese ground force under the

Southern Theater Command The Southern Theater Command () is one of the Theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, five theater commands of the People's Liberation Army, founded on 1 February 2016. Its predecessor was the Guangzhou Military Region. Its jurisdicti ...

. Its headquarters is in

Nanning Nanning; is the capital of the Guangxi, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region in South China, southern China. It is known as the "Green City (绿城) " because of its abundance of lush subtropical foliage. Located in the South of Guangxi, Nanning ...

Guangxi Guangxi,; officially the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, is an Autonomous regions of China, autonomous region of the China, People's Republic of China, located in South China and bordering Vietnam (Hà Giang Province, Hà Giang, Cao Bằn ...

. The current commander is and the current political commissar is .

History

The Southern Theater Command Ground Force was officially established on 31 December 2015 with the troops of former Guangzhou Military Region and

Nanjing Military Region The Nanjing Military Region () was one of the former seven military command regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covered all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shangh ...

Functional departments

* General Staff * Political Work Department * Logistics Department * Equipment department * Disciplinary Inspection Committee

Directly subordinate functional units

* * *

Directly subordinate combat units

Group army

* 74th Group Army (stationed in

Huizhou Huizhou ( zh, c= ) is a city in east-central Guangdong Province, China, forty-three miles north of Hong Kong. Huizhou borders the provincial capital of Guangzhou to the west, Shenzhen and Dongguan to the southwest, Shaoguan to the north, Hey ...

Guangdong ) means "wide" or "vast", and has been associated with the region since the creation of Guang Prefecture in AD 226. The name "''Guang''" ultimately came from Guangxin ( zh, labels=no, first=t, t= , s=广信), an outpost established in Han dynasty ...

) * 75th Group Army (stationed in

Kunming Kunming is the capital and largest city of the province of Yunnan in China. The political, economic, communications and cultural centre of the province, Kunming is also the seat of the provincial government. During World War II, Kunming was a Ch ...

Yunnan Yunnan; is an inland Provinces of China, province in Southwestern China. The province spans approximately and has a population of 47.2 million (as of 2020). The capital of the province is Kunming. The province borders the Chinese provinces ...

)

Directly Subordinate Units

* 2nd Reconnaissance Intelligence Brigade (情報偵察第2旅) * 2nd Information Support Brigade （信息保障第2旅） * 2nd Electronic Warfare Brigade （電子对抗第2旅） * 2nd Long Range Rocket Artillery Brigade (远程火箭炮兵第2旅) * 311st Coastal Defense Brigade (海防第311旅) (stationed in

Zhuhai Zhuhai; Yale romanization of Cantonese, Yale: ''Jyūhói''; Chinese postal romanization, also known as Chuhai is a prefecture-level city located on the west bank of the Pearl River (China), Pearl River estuary on the central coast of southern ...

) * 312nd Brigade of Coastal Defense（海防第312旅) (stationed in Danzhou,

Hainan Hainan is an island provinces of China, province and the southernmost province of China. It consists of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. The name literally mean ...

) * 313th Border Defense Brigade (边防第313旅) (stationed in Pingxiang,

) * 314th Border Defense Brigade（边防第314旅）(stationed in

Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture ( zh, s=红河哈尼族彝族自治州, t=紅河哈尼族彝族自治州, p=Hónghé Hānízú Yízú Zìzhìzhōu; Hani language, Hani: ; Yi script, Yi: ꉼꉸꉳꆃꁈꆃꁈꊨꏦꍓ) is an auto ...

, Yunan) * 315th Border Defense Brigade (边防第315旅) (stationed in

Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture Xishuangbanna, sometimes shortened to Banna, is one of the eight autonomous prefectures of Yunnan Province. The autonomous prefecture for Dai people is in the extreme south of Yunnan province, China, bordering both Myanmar and Laos. Xishuangbanna ...

, Yunnan) * 316th Border Defense Brigade (边防第316旅) (stationed in Lincang, Yunnan) * 317th Border Defense Brigade（边防第317旅) (stationed in Dehong Dai and Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Yunnan)

List of leaders

Commanders

Political commissars

Chiefs of staff

References

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