There are 1 military schools in Guangxi. There are 1 military schools in Guangxi, and the Army Special Operations Academy (SOA) is subordinate to the PLA Army. It is a key construction institution of the whole army and implements the organizational system below the army level. Its main campus is located in Guilin, a world-famous landscape tourist city, and it is the only institution of higher learning in the field of special operations and intelligence reconnaissance in China. The predecessor of the Institute can be traced back to the specialty of reconnaissance and special operations command in the Institute of International Relations of the People's Liberation Army, which was established in 195 1. 20 1 1 the specialty of reconnaissance and special operations command was transferred from Nanjing to Guangzhou as a whole, and merged with the military sports comprehensive training base to form the special operations college, and the special operations college merged with the Guilin comprehensive training base to form the army special operations college.