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Army Service Academy

defunct military academy in China

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2025
Entity authorityQ6124050
Source-derived summary

The Army Service Academy (中国人民解放军陆军勤务学院; formerly known as the Logistical Engineering University of PLA or University of Logistics) is a military-affiliated college in Chongqing. It is affiliated to the General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army.

It was founded in 1961.

Facilities

University of Logistics, established in 1961, is at Majiabao and Xietaizi in the city of Chongqing. It covers over 1300 acres, with building area over 400 thousand square meters.

There are over 650,000 books in the library, and it has area network and E-reading rooms. It has a member of the Chinese Academy of Engineering.

It has 248 professors and associate professors, 13 PHD supervisors, and 91 postgraduate supervisors, 49 of which are benefited from the government's special allowance.

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The public source identifies “Army Service Academy” as defunct military academy in China. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Army, Service and Academy.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1300—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Army, Service and Academy providing the first useful test.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6124050. Authority coordinates are 29.632, 106.314. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 1300.

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This entry incorporates text from Army Service Academy” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.