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General Utility Truck, license-built ZIS-150, China's first domestic built truck type. Standard tactical truck of PLAGF in 1950s to 1980s. FAW CA-30 – Retired. General Utility Truck, license-built ZIL-157; ZIL-130 – Retired. General Utility Truck. Standard tactical truck of PLAGF in 1960s to 1990s. ZIL-131 – Retired. General Utility Truck
General Cao Gangchuan (right, foreground) in a Type 07 dress uniform. Type 07 (Chinese: “零七”式军服，“07”式军服) is a group of military uniforms used by all branches of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of the People's Republic of China (PRC) and the paramilitary Chinese People's Armed Police Force.
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 services — Ground Force , Navy , Air Force , and Rocket Force —and four arms— Aerospace Force , Cyberspace Force , Information Support Force , and Joint Logistics Support Force .
China also received from the Soviets World War II Lend-Lease Sherman M4A2E8 tanks, called "Emcha" with 76 mm with HVSS. Chinese T-34-85 tank. In the early 1950s, the Soviet Union gave China 1,837 T-34-85 tanks, along with some surplus Lend-Lease tanks from World War II. The T-34-85 tank also served with the North Koreans and Chinese during the ...
The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy in the Twenty-First Century (2nd ed., 2010) Fisher, Richard. China's Military Modernization: Building for Regional and Global Reach (2010) excerpt and text search; Fravel, M. Taylor. Active Defense: China's Military Strategy since 1949 (Princeton University Press, 2019) online reviews; Jencks, Harlan W.
218th Division Active until October 1950 as part of 53rd Corps (People's Republic of China). 219th Infantry Division. Formed from 164th Division. Active 1952-60 and then 1960-70 as 219th Army Division, part of 55th Corps (People's Republic of China). 220th Infantry Division; 250th Infantry Division
After the founding of the Republic, the Provisional Government of the Republic of China (1912) in Nanjing established the following orders in 1912: Order of the Nine Tripods (九鼎勳章): 9 grades, a military decoration. Order of Tiger and Bear (虎羆勳章): 9 grades, a military decoration.
The GK80 (Chinese: GK80钢盔) is a Chinese steel combat helmet first developed in the late 1960s. Developed as part of a Chinese military aid to Albania in response to the Sino-Soviet split, the helmet was initially designated as the "Type 69" and was only issued in small numbers within the People's Liberation Army. An improved design was re ...