People's Liberation Army Reserve Force

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People's Liberation Army Reserve Force
中国人民解放军预备役部队
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Active	1955－1957 1983 -- present
Country	People's Republic of China
Allegiance	Chinese Communist Party
Branch	People's Liberation Army
Type	Reserve force
Role	Reinforcing regular army strength, ground operations, border and coastal protection
Size	510,000 [1]
Part of	Central Military Commission
Garrison/HQ	Beijing
Commanders
Director of the National Defense Mobilization Department	PLAGF Lt Gen Liu Faqing (刘发庆)
Political Commissar of the NDMD	PLAGF Lt Gen Wang Donghai (王东海)
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The Reserve Force of the People's Liberation Army is the military reserve force of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). It is composed of a trained force of (mostly retired veteran) civilians that retain an inactive military status, and are subject to fast mobilization.^[2] in case of wartime or other crises, at which time they are transferred to active duty and their units activated into full service.

The reserve forces are organized as full units with a small number of active servicemen as an organizational skeleton, plus a larger body of reserve officers and soldiers in call-up ready state. Reserve units follow the unified organization of the PLA and are entered into the official PLA TOEs and order of battle. The PLA reserve forces are directly under the leadership of the Central Military Commission (CMC).^[3] The National Defense Mobilization Department of the CMC manages the recruitment, unit assignment and mobilization structures.