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Military restructuring for combat efficiency
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-07-13 16:28
The Chinese military is expected to shift its traditional structure by adding
new battle units and cutting outdated ones in an effort to create new combat
effectiveness, reported Tuesday's Liberation Army Daily, the mouthpiece of the
Chinese armed forces.
Military jets of an
airborne division in Jinan, Shandong Province fly in formation during a
training session in this May 19, 2005 photo.
[newsphoto] | According to the Headquarters of the
General Staff of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), a program is
currently underway to change the structure of the Chinese military by cutting
its divisions and increasing brigades.
The readjustment and reform program, said the headquarters, is now proceeding
smoothly after a schedule earlier was handed down through various levels of the
army for observation.
The program will increase the number of land army corps, which are designed
to have a three-level command system (namely corps, brigadier and battalion
levels), adopted by the Chinese forces for the first time.
At the same time, the command levels of the air force and the navy will be
reduced, said the paper, but gave no further details.
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