Xi urges reform of China’s military
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PRESIDENT Xi Jinping has urged breakthroughs in reform of the country’s armed forces by 2020, vowing to reorganize the current military administration structure and military command system.
Xi, also chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks during a three-day meeting on the armed forces which ended yesterday.
A new structure will be established, in which the CMC takes charge of the overall administration of the People’s Liberation Army and the Chinese People’s Armed Police, battle zone commands focus on combats, and different military services pursue their own construction, Xi said.
While urging the PLA to maintain “correct political direction,” the president outlined “a series of designs and arrangements” to consolidate the basic principle that “the Communist Party of China has absolute leadership of the armed forces.”
Xi said the CMC’s “centralized and unified” leadership should be strengthened to ensure that supreme administration and command status belong to the CMC and the Party’s Central Committee.
Xi cited measures designed to “integrate the administrative system and the joint battle command system,” including a general command center for land forces.
The current regional military commands will be adjusted and regrouped into new battle zone commands supervised by the CMC, Xi said.
The reform will establish a three-tier “CMC-battle zone commands-troops” command system and an administration system that runs from the CMC through various services to the troops.
Xi said the PLA’s history was one of reform and innovation. “Under the leadership of the Party, the army has gone from small to large, from weak to strong, and from victory to victory,” he said.
The reason the military has stayed vigorous is that it has kept pace with the times and continued to reform itself, he added.
“Now, as the country progresses from a large country to a large and powerful one, defense and military development stands at a new and historic starting line,” Xi said.
“We must deepen defense and military reforms with greater wisdom and courage,” Xi said.
Xi stressed the importance of regulating power within the military and a new discipline inspection commission is to be established within the CMC.
In September, Xi announced that China would be cutting its troop numbers by 300,000 personnel.
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