The central theater of the Chinese People's Liberation Army is determined according to the general principle that the Central Military Commission is in charge of the whole theater, the main battle of the theater and the main construction of the service, and according to China's security environment and the mission undertaken by the army. It is a regular army level and belongs to the organization and leadership of the Central Military Commission.
As the only highest joint operational command organization in this strategic direction, the theater performs the joint operational command function according to the requirements of combining peacetime and wartime, normal operation, specialization and high efficiency, and undertakes the mission of responding to security threats, maintaining peace, containing wars and winning wars in this strategic direction. The central theater includes seven provinces and cities including Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Hubei and Shanxi. The war zone is in Beijing, and the army organs are in Shijiazhuang.