User:Abovfold/Sandbox/Fuzhou Base
| Fuzhou Base | |
|---|---|
| 福州基地 | |
| Active | February 1960–present |
| Country |  People's Republic of China |
| Allegiance |  Chinese Communist Party |
| Branch |  People's Liberation Army Air Force |
| Part of | Eastern Theater Command Air Force |
| Headquarters | Fuzhou, Fujian Province, People's Republic of China |
| Commanders | |
| Current commander | Maj Gen Lu Jianqiang (吕建强) (c.2017) |
| Political Commissar | Maj Gen Zhao Dongxu (赵东旭) (c.2017) |
Fuzhou Base (Chinese: 福州基地; pinyin: Fúzhōu Jīdì) is a Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force (PLAAF) garrison command located in Fuzhou, Fujian province. Established in 2017 following the 2015 restructuring of the PLA, Fuzhou Base is one of two such organizations providing direction and administrative support to brigades within the Eastern Theater Command Air Force.[1] It is roughly comparable to the United States Space Force's Space Base Delta formations. The organization was known as Fuzhou Command Post before 2017.
History[edit]
In February 1960, the PLAAF Fuzhou Command Station was established in Fuzhou City, Fujian Province. In June of the same year, the Fuzhou Command Post and the Air Force Department of the Fuzhou Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army stationed in Jinjiang were switched. The Air Force Department of the Fuzhou Military Region was moved to Fuzhou . On June 21, 1962, the command post was reorganized into the Eighth Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force , under the leadership of the Air Force of the Fuzhou Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, and later moved to Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province . In April 1976, the Eighth Army of the Air Force stationed in Zhangzhou was abolished (the Air Force Auxiliary Command Post of the Fuzhou Military Region was retained, and it was renamed the PLAAF Zhangzhou Command Post when it was formally organized in August 1978 ). (At the same time, the former Air Force Command Post of the Chengdu Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was reorganized into the new Eighth Army of the Air Force. In 1978, the new Eighth Army of the Air Force was reorganized into the Air Force Command Post of the Chengdu Military Region.) In the 1985 million-dollar disarmament , in the large After the merger of the military area , the former leadership the Air Force of the Fuzhou Military Region of the Chinese People's Liberation Army was abolished and reorganized as the Eighth Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force . . At the same time, the Zhangzhou Command Post of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Air Force was reorganized from the military level to the division level. In December 2003, the Eighth Army of the Air Force was reorganized into the PLAAF Fuzhou Command Post . Before the deepening of national defense and military reforms in 2016, the Fuzhou Command Post of the Air Force was subordinate to the Air Force of the Nanjing Military Region.
On April 18, 2017, Xi Jinping , General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, President of the State, and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, met with the heads of 84 newly adjusted military-level units at the Bayi Building in Beijing , and issued instructions to each unit; Members of the Politburo of the CCP Central Committee , Xu Qiliang , vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, read out the orders and decisions of the Central Military Commission issued by Chairman Xi Jinping on the adjustment and formation of military units and military-level units of the provincial military region system .
Upon completion of the base's role in the 2016 Chinese Military Reforms, Fuzhou Air Force Base was newly established, at the deputy military level, and in April 2017, Major General Lu Jianqiang (吕建强) was installed as the first commander under Eastern Theater Command Air Force
References[edit]
- ^ Pike, John (25 March 2021). "PLAAF Base/ Brigade Re-naming". Globalsecurity.org. ISSN 2769-8947. Retrieved 20 December 2022.