This is a list of air bases operated by the

People's Liberation Army Air Force The People's Liberation Army Air Force, also referred to as the Chinese Air Force () or the People's Air Force (), is the primary aerial warfare service of the People's Liberation Army. The PLAAF controls most of the PLA's air assets, includi ...

(PLAAF). Facilities included in the list include all

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at which the PLAAF maintains a regular presence. These may include those exclusively for military use as well as those portions of mixed-use aerodromes operated by the military. It may also include facilities in other countries at which the PLAAF controls a portion of facilities for regular operations. Each listed air base includes the following elements of information as known. # Primary air base name. The official or most commonly used name for the military portion of the aerodrome # Chinese name. Simplified (

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) Chinese characters for the primary name (not including characters for air base or air field) # Alternate names. Other names used to describe the military portion or larger aerodrome including civilian name # IATA Code. IATA location identifier issued by the

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# ICAO Code. ICAO airport codes issued by the

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. Typically air bases used strictly by military forces and closed to civil aviation are given an identifier in the form of "CN-XXXX". # Use. Military, civilian, or dual-use (current) # Subordination. The higher command to which the air base is assigned; this is often a

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air force # Coordinates. The

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for the aerodrome; linked to the geo-hack, adjusted as necessary to avoid the Wu-shift # Runways.

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and length (in

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) of operational runways # Tenants. Units known or suspected to maintain a presence on the air base and their aircraft

Current air bases

Airbases

References

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China China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. With population of China, a population exceeding 1.4 billion, it is the list of countries by population (United Nations), second-most populous country after ...