December 12, 1954 (Jiawu years winter month and 18), the division of the Central Military Commission held an enlarged meeting Military Region.

1954 12 12, held an enlarged meeting of the CPC Central Military Commission. The meeting discussed issues such as the implementation of compulsory military service, rank system, the salary system of officers, and the military regions of the division, the military training of troops and cadres training, through a political report on the work of implementing the above three systems and the national military regions division plan. Original northeast, north, northwest, east, south central, southwest of six military region divided into 12 major military commands of Shenyang, Beijing, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou, Wuhan, Chengdu, Kunming, Lanzhou, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia, and Tibet. (1956 and additional Fuzhou Military Region, May 1967 and December 1969, the Inner Mongolia Military Region and the Tibet Military has changed to the provincial military, were placed under the leadership of Beijing Military Region, Chengdu Military Region).