Media: the PLA has replaced all 13 commanders of land armies

As reported in friday's newspaper renmin ribao, the chinese authorities changed 26 commanders and 13 political commissars of all of the armies of land forces of the people's liberation army (pla). A list of appointed to these positions commanders published in the newspaper, reports tascam noted in the report, all the officers arrived in their assigned formation during the day. The first reports on the reduction of the armies of land forces from 18 to 13 units appeared in the media in march this year. In april this information was confirmed by the defense ministry of the prc: the new army received sequence numbers from 71 to 83 and was distributed between the five areas of military command. In november 2015, chinese president xi jinping announced the upcoming large-scale reforms in the pla. In addition to the downsizing of military forces by 300 thousand (up to 2 million soldiers) by 2018, the changes affect the organizational structure of the pla and should be completed by 2020.