BEIJING: The People’s Liberation Army has been undergoing a historic reform guided by President Xi Jinping since late 2012, when Xi became the top leader of the Communist Party of China and the Chinese military. Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Military has also made it clear that pursuing reform and encouraging innovation are key to military’s strength.
The reform has resulted in the biggest, most important overhaul of the PLA in decades.
The senior governing bodies of the world’s largest military have been reshuffled up to the Central Military Commission to optimize the command chain. The regional command systems have been reorganized to boost joint combat capabilities.
Group armies and institutions have been merged to improve efficiency, and new high-technology units have been set up to prepare for operations in nontraditional fields such as cyberspace.
Experts said the president’s goal is plain and clear: The PLA must become stronger, more integrated and more flexible so it will always be able to win modern wars.
Not long after Xi became general secretary of the CPC Central Committee in November 2012, he announced his determination to revolutionize the PLA and build it into a mighty force capable of safeguarding China’s security and interests. Since then, the CPC Central Committee with Xi as the core has been making theoretical and practical efforts to identify what kind of military should be built in order to respond to the new realities of the new era and help make the great Chinese dream of national rejuvenation come true, and what steps should be taken to build such a military. The outcome of these discussions has come to be known as Xi Jinping Thought on Strengthening the Military.
–The Daily Mail-China Daily news exchange item
