- Security domain
- Joint
- What it is
- military commission · command (level 2)
- Founded
- 1954
- Statutory basis
- Constitution of the People's Republic of China, section 4; National Defence Law (2020)
- Acknowledged by
- China's National Defense in the New Era (State Council Information Office white paper, 2019) (white paper)
- Active headcount
- not published
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/081T29P135 · Q190338
- Government directory
- Central Military Commission on government.ginc.org
Beneath it
- PLA Ground Force960,000
- PLA Navy384,000
- PLA Air Force403,000
- PLA Aerospace Force–
- PLA Cyberspace Force–
- PLA Rocket Force120,000
- People's Armed Police–
- Central Theater Command–
- Eastern Theater Command–
- Joint Staff Department–
- Northern Theater Command–
- PLA Information Support Force–
- PLA Joint Logistic Support Force–
- Political Work Department–
- Southern Theater Command–
- Western Theater Command–