The Kunming Military Region was a military region of the

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, established in December 1954 or 1955 and disestablished during the 1980s. It was incorporated within the Chengdu Military Region. In the 1954 reorganization that established 13 Military Regions,

Xie Fuzhi Xie Fuzhi (; 26 September 1909 – 26 March 1972) was a Chinese Communist Party military commander, political commissar, and national security specialist. He was born in 1909 in Hong'an County, Hubei and died in Beijing in 1972. Xie was known ...

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 13th 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 Guangzhou Military Regions.

Yang Dezhi Yang Dezhi ( zh, s=杨得志, t=楊得志, p=Yáng Dézhì; January 13, 1911 – October 25, 1994) was a Chinese general and politician. He was senior military officer in the North China (or 5th) Field Army, a veteran of the Korean War and co ...

moved from command of the Wuhan Military Region to become deputy commander of the Southern Front and commander of the Kunming Military Region. In May 1979, the

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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 14th Army.

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