With the 2018 reforms, Specialist Corps other than the Transportation Corps have been placed under other ministries, while the China Coast Guard (CCG) was transferred from State Council to PAP command, and the Transportation Corps has some units under the Mobile Corps. The Border Defense Corps and Guards Corps have been absorbed by the
Ministry of Public Security (MPS). The Forestry Corps were merged with the (also known as the firefighting corps) of the MPS and reorganised as
China Fire and Rescue (CF&R), it was placed under the
Ministry of Emergency Management. The Gold Corps and Hydropower Corps have been transformed into state-owned enterprises under the supervision of the relevant State Council ministries (
Ministry of Natural Resources and
China National Gold Group Corporation and China Aneng Construction Corporation, respectively).
Ministry of Public Security Active Service Forces The MPSASF were agencies of the Ministry of Public Security who were manned by People's Armed Police Personnel. The three corps of the MPSASF were the Border Defense Corps in charge of border patrol and immigration inspection, the Guard Corps in charge of VIP protection and the protection of provincial leaders,
Forestry Corps The () was a former branch of the PAP which did tasks such as
fighting Wildfires and law enforcement in forest areas, along with protecting wildlife, disaster relief. When it was active, it was the only military branch on Earth whose task was
fighting wildfires. It was nicknamed the "Fearless Red Boys". The Forestry Corps was officially disbanded on 10 October 2018.
History The Forestry Corps can trace its lineage to the Armed Forest Protection Battalions (); There were a total of four battalions; Each of the
Hejiang,
Songjiang,
Longjiang and
Jilin provinces consisted of one Armed Forest Protection Battalion. Founded on 25 August 1948, these units were created to conduct
counterinsurgency operations against
Japanese/Collaborator holdouts (This role was also later expanded to
KMT holdouts after the
Chinese Civil War), bandits and triads in
Northeast China, which would often raid local villages and commit acts of arson, causing wildfires. At the time of establishment, each had 960 soldiers (3840 soldiers, all battalions combined). The Armed Forest Protection Battalions would often disguise themselves as hunters during recon, and used
Cavalry tactics. By 16 October 1950, each battalion had 1600 soldiers (6400 Soldiers total). According to archives, by 1952, the Armed Forest Protection Battalions had killed a total of 6 KMT and American spies along with capturing a total of 46 spies, 34 triad members and 71 illegal migrants along with 68 firearms, multiple tens of thousand rounds of ammunition, multiple kilograms of drugs and prevented a total of 7 vandalism incidents. were founded, in 2002 the
Sichuan Corps,
Tibet Corps and
Xinjiang Corps were founded, and in 2007 the
Fujian Corps, the
Gansu Corps and were founded. It was stationed in
Daqing and operated
Z-8 Helicopters, which were used for search and rescue, personnel transport and
firefighting. The Helicopter Detachment had the nickname "Heroic Firefighting Hawks". AC313s were also ordered. After the
2008 Sichuan Earthquake, the Forestry Corps deployed over 2000 personnel to assist with rescue efforts. In total, the forestry corps evacuated 14,000 people, rescued 8 survivors, recovered the bodies of 1,200 victim along with transporting 2,000 tonnes of aid, repairing 40 km of roads and rescuing 86
giant pandas. On 16 September 2015, the Forestry Corps
Lijiang Detachment was deployed to
Huaping county to conduct post-flood disaster relief efforts, rescuing 10 people and transporting 60 tonnes of aid. On 2 June 2018, large scale wildfires sprung up in
Daxing'anling Prefecture. A total of 7000 Forestry Corps personnel were deployed from the Inner Mongolia, Heilongjiang and Jilin Corps to suppress the wildfire. Between 1948 and 2018, the Forestry Corps and its predecessors conducted a total of 16,000 wildfire fighting operations and 43,000 law enforcement operations. A total of 236 units and personnel received honorary titles, and 92 units and personnel received
1st Class Meritorious Service Medals.
History It was founded in March 1979 as part of the . It was under the joint dual command of the Basic Engineering Corps and the . It consisted of 7 regiment level battalions and 12 geological teams. The same year in December, its official role switched again to geological surveying and metal analysis along with disaster relief to geological related incidents and law enforcement. • 1st Gold Detachment • 5th Gold Detachment • 9th Gold Detachment Prior to 2018, the Hydropower Corps was in charge of managing, constructing and providing law enforcement to hyrdropower facilities along with
flood management.
History In Summer 1950, due to the
Huai River flooding,
Mao Zedong and
Zhou Enlai laid plans to deploy military forces for flood disaster relief. On 8 February 1952, the
East China Field Army's 90th Division was recalled from Northeast China (where it was originally meant to participate in the Korean war) and reorganised into the 1st and 2nd hydraulic engineering divisions, and deployed to conduct
flood management. In Spring of 1955, the 1st and 2nd hydraulic engineering divisions were disbanded, with its personnel becoming civilian engineers. Throughout its history, the Hydropower corps has been involved in the construction of over 50 hydropower projects, including the
Three Gorges Dam, and
Longtan Dam, along with providing aid and rescue to many disasters, such as the
2014 Ludian earthquake and
2015 Shenzhen landslide. After the
2014 Ludian earthquake, the 1st Hydropower Corps deployed 263 personnel to conduct an emergency demolition operation of Changhai Dam, which after the earthquake had huge risk of a
dam failure. The Hydropower corps was officially disbanded on 30 August 2018, and was handed over to the China Anneng Construction Group in April 2019.
Organisation (1982–2018) • 1st Hydropower Corps - Formerly the Basic Engineering Corps 61st Detachment; Headquarters in
Nanning • 2nd Hydropower Detachment • 12th Hydropower Detachment
Post reform organisations • The 1st Hydropower Corps was converted into the China Anneng Construction Group's 1st Engineering Bureau (Headquartered in
Nanning) on 19 November 2019. • The 2nd Hydropower Corps was converted into the China Anneng Construction Group's 2nd Engineering Bureau (Headquartered in
Nanchang) on 14 November 2019. • The 3rd Hydropower Corps was converted into the China Anneng Construction Group's 3rd Engineering Bureau (Headquartered in
Chengdu) on 12 November 2019. It has branches in Wuhan and Chongqing. == See also ==