114th Armed Police Mobile Division


The People's Republic of China's 114th Division was a division of the People's Armed Police.

History

Originally the unit was the 111th Division of the North-East Army which fought against the Japanese during the Second Sino-Japanese War, it was later transferred to the Eighth Route Army's Shandong Military Region, and then again to the North East People's Volunteer Army; the unit was redesignated the 114th on transfer to the 38th Army.
As the 114th, under the 38th Army, the division fought as part of the People's Volunteer Army or Chinese Communist Forces ) during the Korean War with a standard strength of approximately 10,000 men. At that time it consisted of the 340th, 341st, and 342nd Regiments.
It fought the Turkish Brigade at the Battle of Wawon, November 27–29, 1950, and the ROK 9th Infantry Division (South Korea) at the Battle of White Horse Hill in October 1952.
The formation remained for many years with the 38th Group Army in the Shenyang Military Region, as the 114th Mechanized Infantry Division. In 1996, as part of the reform of the People's Liberation Army in the 1990s the 114th was transferred to the People's Armed Police, becoming the 114th Armed Police Division, unit number 8640, stationed in Dingzhou, Baoding.
The 114th was chosen to represent the PAP during the 2015 China Victory Day Parade.
After the 2017 reform, the division was divided into two detachments : the 5th Mobile Detachment and the 6th Mobile Detachment under the PAP 1st Mobile Contingent.

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