Zhang Xiaoming, (всъщност е упоменато да са 200 000 с 400 – 550 танка)" China's 1979 War with Vietnam: A Reassessment", China Quarterly, Issue no. 184 (December 2005), pp. 851 – 874. Zhang writes that: „Existing scholarship tends towards an estimate of as many as 25 000 PLA killed in action and another 37 000 wounded. Recently available Chinese sources categorize the PLA’s losses as 6,900 dead and some 15 000 injured, giving a total of 21 900 casualties from an invasion force of 200 000.“
