On April 27, 2017, with the ministry of national defense spokesman Yang Yujun announced that the army will be reorganized into 13 group armies. At this point Chinese the 70 armies of the People's Liberation Army (missing the 56th, 57th and 59th Armies, replaced by the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Armies of the Northwest Independent Army) have all fulfilled their historical missions. In its place were the glorious course of battle belonging to the past, everything from scratch, and a total of 13 heavily armored army groups from the 71st to 83rd Armies.
49th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (1949.3-1951.1) (1951.7-1952.1)
On February 1, 1949, in accordance with the order of the Central Military Commission of November 1, 1948 on the unification of the organization and number of the whole army, the 12th Column of the Northeast Field Army was renamed the 49th Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army and was subordinate to the Fourth Field Army. In January 1951, the 49th Army was abolished and the Military Department was merged with the Guangxi Military Region. It was rebuilt in July 1951 on the basis of the 154th Division, and was rescheduled in January 1952. The army has a glorious combat history of 3 years.
Major General Zhong Wei, commander of the 49th Army
Lieutenant General Yuan Shengping, political commissar of the 49th Army
(In no particular order of service, in order of position)
Major General Zhong Wei: Former commander (later chief of staff of the Air Defense Force, chief of staff of the Beijing Military Region)
Lieutenant General Zeng Guohua: Former military commander (later commander of the Air Force of the Shenyang Military Region and deputy commander of the Air Force)
Lieutenant General Yuan Shengping: Former Political Commissar (later Deputy Political Commissar and Director of the Political Department of the Beijing Military Region, Second Political Commissar of the Jinan Military Region, Political Commissar of the Beijing Military Region)
Lieutenant General Xu Binzhou: Former Political Commissar (later Deputy Political Commissar of the Academy of Military Sciences)
Major General Kurizayama: Former political commissar (previously political commissar and deputy political commissar of the 146th Division. Later, deputy director of the Commission of Science, Technology and Industry for National Defense)
Major General Tan Youlin: Former deputy commander (formerly political commissar of the 145th Division. Later, he served as deputy commander of the engineering corps, deputy political commissar of Fuzhou Military Region, political commissar of Urumqi Military Region, and political commissar of Lanzhou Military Region)
Major General Xiong Botao: Former deputy commander (later deputy commander of the public security forces)
Major General Deng Dongzhe: Former Deputy Commander (later Deputy Political Commissar of the Engineer Corps)
Major General Shen Qixian: Former Chief of Staff (former commander of the 145th Division)
Major General Zhou Bin: Former deputy director of the Political Department
Major General Li Jianqiu: Former head of the Organization Department of the Political Department
Major General Chen De: Former political commissar of the 145th Division
Major General Wang Kuixian: Former commander of the 146th Division
Major General Wang Zhaoxiang: Former commander of the 162nd Division
(In 1955, a total of 14 senior generals served in the 49th Army, including 3 lieutenant generals and 11 major generals.)