Theater command

A theater command is a multi-service formation of China's People's Liberation Army subordinated to the Central Military Commission.

[2] When listed by the government of the People's Republic of China, the theater commands are, by protocol, presented in order of precedence, as show below.

[2] Neither the Central nor the Western Theater Command have an assigned PLAN service headquarters due to their smaller coastal profiles.

[6] The People's Liberation Army was originally organized by military regions (Chinese: 军区; pinyin: jūnqū).

Due to the tension in the Taiwan Straits, the State Council ordered the establishment of the Fuzhou Military Region on 22 April 1956.

[11] Those eleven military regions—Shenyang, Beijing, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou (including Hainan Island), Kunming, Wuhan, Chengdu, Lanzhou, Xinjiang, and Fuzhou—were reduced to seven by 1985–88.

This change was planned to transition their concept of operations from primarily ground-oriented defense to mobile and coordinated movement of all services and to enhance offensive air and naval capabilities into the East China Sea.