- Service ensign · official · carried by People's Liberation Army
- Affiliation étatique · Chine
- Emblème de catégorie Vigil · pas un insigne officiel
Provenance de l’identité
Service ensign: Flag of the People’s Liberation Army — carried by People's Liberation Army, not issued to this record. Drawn by Vigil in IconSprite.astro from the flag’s official construction; no file is fetched and no artwork is copied. The PLA flag was adopted on 15 June 1949 — a red field with a gold five-pointed star and the characters for eight and one in the upper hoist.
Affiliation étatique : Chine.
La petite marque carrée est un emblème de catégorie Vigil, établi à partir du domaine, de l’échelon et du rôle propres à cette fiche — pas un insigne officiel.
En bref
La force qui a regroupé les fonctions spatiales, cyber, électroniques et d’information de l’APL de 2015 jusqu’à sa suppression en avril 2024 — la structure que décrivent la plupart des analyses antérieures à 2024.
- Périmètre
- Structure, rôle, filiation et liens. Aucune fiche subordonnée publiée.
- Subordination
- Historical subordination · until 2024-04
- Sources
- 5 dans la fiche
- État de la fiche
- Partiel
- Zone d’activité générale
- Chinese territory; a functional remit, dissolved in 2024
- Historique notable
- Created on 31 December 2015 as one of the signature institutions of the PLA reforms, the Strategic Support Force gathered space, cyber, electronic warfare and information functions that had previously been scattered across the general departments. For eight years it was the organisation Western analysis pointed to when describing how China intended to fight an "informationised" war, and a large body of published work is written about it. On 19 April 2024 it was eliminated. Its Space Systems Department became the Aerospace Force, its Network Systems Department the Cyberspace Force, and its information-communication base was elevated and became the Information Support Force; all three now report directly to the Central Military Commission alongside the pre-existing Joint Logistics Support Force. The most careful published analysis of the change states plainly that the reason for it is not clear from available sources.
- Points forts
- As an institution it did what it was designed to do — it consolidated functions that had been divided — and the three organisations that replaced it inherited that consolidation rather than undoing it.
- Limites
- Its dissolution is the reason to treat pre-2024 descriptions of PLA space and cyber organisation with care rather than as current: a source that says "the SSF is responsible for X" is describing a structure that ended in April 2024, and the module does not silently map such claims onto whichever successor seems closest. Where the SSF's political-warfare and Taiwan-directed psychological-operations elements went is specifically not established, and that gap is recorded rather than filled.
Filiation et histoire institutionnelle
Successeurs : PLA Information Support Force · PLA Aerospace Force · PLA Cyberspace Force
Subordinate to the Central Military Commission from its establishment on 31 December 2015 until 19 April 2024, when it was eliminated and its component organisations were reconstituted as three separate arms reporting to the CMC.
Évalué au — 2026-09 Dernière revue — 2026-09-09
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