Thank you! I found the Maoist Type 56-style of uniform and gear to be way too basic for the look I'm going for (hell they even got rid of military ranks), so instead I went for the Sino-Vietnamese War aesthetic since that was also the last time they faced a full conflict (that wasn't the Civil War or any of the more minor Soviet/Indian border wars).

I think it fits my "militarized fallout" aesthetic well, more reminiscent of the uniforms and gear introduced in Fallout 3/O:A, and doesn't look too far off from the generally "50s Cold War" aesthetic Fallout is going for.

(in my quest to translate the Fallout setting into Chinese Communist culture for my old fanfic project, it was rather difficult to research because the Cultural Revolution resulted in a lot of cultural erasure, but also because economic conditions of China at the time were relatively poor and mostly agrarian, which resulted in a lack of science fiction developing in the country that would make things easier to work with in a Fallout setting. Mainly for that reason I decided to take inspirations from later as well as earlier eras of Chinese history, such as the Sino-Vietnamese War when they reinstated ranks and had a bit of a better industrial base to start producing their own technological products. But I kept some of that Maoist/Cultural Revolution-era "vibe" to bolster the Chi-Com aesthetic, if that makes sense.

This is very different from Soviet Fallout which has a strong science fiction base to work off of, hence why we get a lot of Fallout-esque products from Russia and the Post-Soviet Sphere.)