- Security domain
- Land
- What it is
- service · service (level 3)
- Founded
- 1927
- Acknowledged by
- China's National Defense in the New Era (State Council Information Office white paper, 2019) (white paper)
- Active headcount
- 960,000 (2025) estimated, medium confidence
- Headcount source
- Wikipedia infobox, People's Liberation Army Ground Force (IISS Military Balance 2025)
- Identifiers
- factbase.org/org/9GT1XMK786 · Q1187401
Beneath it
Platforms it operates
From the service's own equipment list where one is published.
- HQ-17
- Z-11
- PCL-161
- PCL-171
- PHL-11
- PHL-03
- PGZ-88
- PLL-05
- Type 86 infantry fighting vehicle
- Z-10
- S-70
- HQ-7
- Shaanxi Y-8
- Jonyang GDG130
- Xian Y-7
- Type 19 infantry fighting vehicle
- Type 19
- Harbin Z-21
- ZBD-04
- Type 100 tank
- FK-3000
- OW5
- Type 89 AFV
- PLZ-10
- Hurricane
- Type 100 support vehicle
- QN-202
- HN-6
- HN-6B
- Mil Mi-8
- Harbin Z-20
- PLZ-05
- Aisheng ASN-209
- D-30
- PL-54-1 (M-30)
- PL-54 (M-30)
- Type 95 SPAAA
- Changhe Z-18
- HJ-12
- Dongfeng EQ2050
- PCP-001
- Type 271 landing craft
- M46
- WZ551
- PTL-02
- HJ-8
- Type 88 tank
- Type 09 SPAAA
- Dongfeng Mengshi
- AFT-11 Carrier
- CTL-181A Assault Bridge Builder
- CTL-181A Drone Swarm
- CTL181A Mortar Carrier
- Harbin Z-19 Black Whirlwind
- HJ-73D
- HJ-73D Carrier
- Mil Mi-17
- Type 83 SPH
- Mi-26
- H120 Colibri