The Shenyang Military Region (simplified Chinese: 沈阳军区; traditional Chinese: 瀋陽軍區; pinyin: shěnyáng jūnqū is one of seven military regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. It has command and control of military and armed police forces in the three northeast provinces of Jilin, Heilongjiang, and Liaoning, which also form Military Districts.
The Shenyang Military Region has been left with unchanged boundaries since the late 1960s. It is bordered internally by the Beijing Military Region to the west. Externally, it is bordered by North Korea to the south east and the Russian Far East to the north.
Analysts suggest that it's the second most important military region next to the Beijing Military Region.[1]
The International Institute for Strategic Studies lists the formation with an estimated 250,000 personnel, three group armies, and two armoured, one mechanised, four motorised, and one artillery division.[2] It also lists two armoured, five motorised, three artillery, four anti-aircraft and one anti-tank brigades with the formation.
Known formations and units include the 16th Group Army, with three divisions, including an armoured division, in Jilin, the 23rd Group Army headquartered at Harbin, and the 39th Group Army in Liaoning.
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