CHINESE COMMUNIST ENGINEERING UNITS

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R012300360001-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: C
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: December 15, 2016
• Document Release Date: April 18, 2001
• Sequence Number: 1
• Publication Date: June 6, 1952
• Content Type: REPORT

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COUNTRY
SUBJECT
CLASSIFICATION
China
CONFIDENTIAL
SECURITY INFORMATION
INFORMATION REPORT REPORT NO.
CD NO.
Chinese Communist Engineering Units
DATE DISTR. 6 June 1952
NO. OF PAGES 2
The Chinese Communists, in their program for building a modern armed force,
have copied the Soviet pattern for building up their army engineering
units. During the "War For National Liberation" Chinese Communist Army
engineers were assigned as parts of specialized army units; now,, however.,
they are assigned as integral parts of combat units.
An Army Engineers Command has been established to be responsible for all
army engineering units. This headquarters, like the Artillery and
Armored Force Command, is directly subordinate to Chinese Communist A---my
Headquarters. In addition to the Army Engineers Command, Army Engineer
Command Posts have been established in the various military areas as
follows,.
Army Engineer Command (AEC) of the Northwest Military Area (MA) at
Lanchou.
AEC of the Southwest MA at Chungking.
AEC of the East China MA at Wuchin (119-58, 31-46).
AEC of the Central and South China MA at Changsha.
AEC of the North China MA at T4unghsien (I16-39, 39-55).
AEC of the Northeast MA at Mukden.
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The training of army engineer cadres is being undertaken by seven separate
schools. One of these is an engineering school at Kalgan (114-55., 40-50)
directly under the control of the central Army Engineers Command. The other
six schools are directly controlled by the AECts of the various military
areasq and are with those commands at the cities listed in Paragraph 2 above.
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There are 42 army engineers regiments (Ttuan 0957). These regiments are
being reorganized on the Soviet model with the following units: (a)
scouting, (b) camouflage and obstruction, (c) bridge, (d) demolition,
(e) land mine, (f) hydraulic or water works (sic) engineering, and
(g) electrical engineering. The procedure for establishing a modern
army engineering force in the Chinese Communist Army consists of training
groups of officers and men from the existing engineers regiments and also
assigning new,cadres and new equipment to these regiments. Twenty-eight
o' these army engineers regiments will have been newly trained and
eijutpped by the end of 1952, and all forty-two regiments are scheduled
to he newly trained and equipped by December 1953.
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