CASUALTY RECORD // January 1, 1948
Battle of Jinzhou
Estimated casualties — killed, wounded, captured, and missing — by side, with confidence labels per surviving record.
Casualties by side
2 sides catalogued · combined 44,000 estimated
Republic of China Army
20,000
Medium-confidence figure
People's Liberation Army
24,000
Medium-confidence figure
Battle context
The Battle of Jinzhou (Chinchow) was fought as part of the Liaoshen Campaign, a major operational phase of the Chinese Civil War. The People's Liberation Army committed roughly 250,000 troops against a Republic of China Army force of approximately 150,000, suffering 24,000 casualties while inflicting around 20,000 on the Nationalist side. The battle is identified as a turning point in the Liaoshen Campaign, and the campaign as a whole resulted in Communist capture of Northeast China. Control of the northeast gave the People's Liberation Army a strategically vital industrial and agricultural base, fundamentally altering the balance of the broader civil war between the Nationalist government and the Communist Party.
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