[2] Under Lin Biao in mid-June 1949, the 38th took part in the campaign to take Southern China and encircled Yichang, Hubei and seized the city.

[5] 38th Corps was ultimately successful in setting up the "Gauntlet" against the US 2nd Infantry Division at Kunu-ri, and for its performance it received the title "Ten thousand years Army" (万岁军).

[8] The 38th Corps returned to China in 1953, remaining in Manchuria to reinforce the Fourth Field Army.

In 1968 the 38th was involved in clashes with elements of the Hebei Military District over differences in revolutionary fervor.

[9] The 38th, under the command of General Xu Qinxian (徐勤先), refused to use force against the students when martial law was declared, and was reported to have been in a tense stand-off with the 27th Combined Corps and other units which held the city in the days immediately following the bloody crackdown.

[11] It is one of the best equipped and trained group armies in China today, and is given the task of guarding the national capital of Beijing.

[citation needed] An unidentified mechanized division (probably from the 38th Group Army) conducted an opposed force exercise in mid-August 2002.

[12] According to the December 2002 PLA Activities Report, the Mechanized Air Defense Brigade (Unit 66440) assigned to the 38th Combined Corps recently improved its tactics and methods of defending against cruise missile attacks.

[13] Over the course of the 2003 reductions cycle, Dennis Blasko estimates that the 114th Mechanised Infantry Division was dropped from the force.