Nanjing Military Region
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The Nanjing Military Region is one of seven military command regions for the Chinese People's Liberation Army. Its jurisdiction covers all military and armed police located in Anhui, Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian, and Shanghai.
The International Institute for Strategic Studies lists the formation with an estimated 250,000 personnel, three group armies, two armoured, one mechanised infantry, three motorised infantry, and one artillery division. There are also one armoured, four motorised infantry, two artillery, three anti-aircraft brigades, plus an anti-tank regiment.
The headquarters for the East Sea Fleet are located within the region, at Ningbo.
[edit] SAM coverage over Taiwan Strait
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Surface-to-Air Missile Coverage over the Taiwan Strait. Note: This map depicts notional coverage provided by China’s SA-10, SA-20 SAM systems, as well as the soon-to-be acquired S-300PMU2. Actual coverage would be non-contiguous and dependent upon precise deployment sites. |
[edit] Sources
International Institute for Strategic Studies, the Military Balance 2005-6, Routledge, 2005, p.272
zh:南京军区
