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SCIO briefing on PLA construction and development

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Speakers:
Senior Colonel Lu Yu, deputy director-general of the Legislative Affairs Office, the General Office of the Central Military Commission (CMC);
Major General Zhou Shangping, deputy director-general of the Operations Bureau, the Joint Staff Department of the CMC;
Senior Colonel Zhang Chengwen, deputy chief of the General Office, the Political Work Department of the CMC;
Senior Colonel Wu Qian, deputy director-general of the Information Office of the Ministry of National Defense and its current spokesperson

Chairperson:
Hu Kaihong, spokesperson of the State Council Information Office

Date:
July 24, 2017

Southern Metropolis Daily：

August 1 of this year marks the 90th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). It is said that relevant military parades and celebrations will probably be held during the period. Would you like to confirm it? Thank you.

Wu Qian:

With regard to the question you have mentioned, we will release relevant information in due course. Thank you.

Xinhua News Agency:

The PLA is being engaged in a grand military reform known as the "most important reform in Chinese history." Could you please give us a brief introduction to the latest progress and achievements in the reform of China's defense and army building? Thank you.

Wu Qian:

I would like to take your question. Under the strong leadership of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, the Central Military Commission (CMC) and President Xi Jinping, China is pushing forward the reform of national defense and the PLA in a planned and step-by-step manner, and we have made significant breakthroughs in some major areas and key links.

Taking the reform of the leadership and command system as the first step, the PLA have set up a new command operations pattern, in which the CMC is the highest policy-making body responsible for the overall strategic development of the PLA; the battle zones are only responsible for combat training and combat command of the troops under their jurisdiction; and all services are only responsible for army building and won't intervene in specific command matters. This approach has realized a historical change in the PLA's organizational structure.

Under this process, we have set up the framework of the new military system involving optimizing the size and constitution of the PLA, and carried out the reform of military academies, research institutions and training institutions. In addition, the work related to transferring and organizing troops from one unit to another is progressing orderly. As soon as all the reforms are completed, the PLA will be more capable, more scientific and more optimized.

The adjustment and reform of military policies and systems is also advancing steadily. We have introduced the supporting policies and systems in the fields of military human resources and logistics. Moreover, we also have taken substantial measures in implementing the strategy of civil-military integration. The CPC Central Committee has decided to set up a central civil-military integration development committee to further strengthen the centralized and unified leadership in the development of civil-military integration and to accelerate the integration to boost a development framework featuring complete elements, multi-fields and high benefit.

Thank you.

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