The Kunming Military Region was a
military region of the
People's Liberation Army
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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 was given command of the Kunming MR and
Qin Jiwei was made deputy commander. Later Qin became commander of the region (1960–67).
In March 1967, the
Central Intelligence Agency identified some 35 field corps, of which two, the
13th
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and
14th
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, were within the Kunming MR.
In late December 1978 or early January 1979, ahead of the
1979 Sino-Vietnamese border war
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, the PLA established the Southern Front to direct the Kunming and
Guangzhou Military Regions.
Yang Dezhi 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 "May 7th cadre school" 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 Fourteenth Army or 14th Army may refer to:
* 14th Army (German Empire), a World War I field Army
* 14th Army (Wehrmacht), a World War II field army
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Military regions of the People's Liberation Army
Military units and formations established in the 1950s
Military units and formations disestablished in the 1980s