The 65th Group Army is a military formation of China's People's Liberation Army

People's Liberation Army

The People's Liberation Army is the unified military organization of all land, sea, strategic missile and air forces of the People's Republic of China. The PLA was established on August 1, 1927 — celebrated annually as "PLA Day" — as the military arm of the Communist Party of China...

 and one of three active group armies belonging to the Beijing Military Region. It is based in Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou

Zhangjiakou, also known also by several other names, is a prefecture-level city in northwestern Hebei province of North China, adjacent to Beijing to the southeast. Its administrative area has a population of 4.35 million, and covers...

, Hebei

Hebei

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 and is composed of the 193rd Division, an artillery division, an armored brigade, two motorized infantry brigades, and an anti-aircraft artillery brigade. Its unit ID number is 66455.

History

The 65th Group Army traces its lineage to its original incarnation, the 5th Column of the North China Field Army established sometime around 1946. It was initially composed of three brigades, the 13th, 14th, and 15th. In 1949 the unit was reorganized and redesignated as the 65th Corps under the command of Hsiao Ying-t'ang. In 1949 the 65th Corps was composed of the 193rd, 194th and 195th Divisions.

The 65th was deployed to Korea in 1951. Following the Korean War the 65th Corps was redeployed to Hebei

Hebei

' is a province of the People's Republic of China in the North China region. Its one-character abbreviation is "" , named after Ji Province, a Han Dynasty province that included what is now southern Hebei...

in 1953.

In 2002, the unit's ID number was changed from 50156 to 66455.