[1] The predecessor of the 67th group army was the troops of the Jin-Cha-Ji military district.
Guo Tianmin (later Yang Dezhi) served as commander, Li Zhimin was the political commissar.
During the civil war, it participated in the main fighting in North China.
In June 1951,[2] it entered Korea under the command of Li Xiang, with Commissar Kuang Fuzhao, and the 199th, 200th, and 201st Divisions.
In the 1980s, participated in the Sino-Vietnamese conflicts 1979–90, and the army's 199th Division achieved large fighting results.