Total Army Members: 2.11 million(2014
collected) ReserveTroops: 3.25 million (2014 collected)
Budget of National Defense:
US$146 billion (2015). Reference link:
China Military Budget.
Chairman of Central Military Commission:
Xi Jinping
(DOB 1953)
Minister of National Defense: Chang Wanquan
(DOB 1949)
Chief of the General Staff: General:
Fang Fenghui
（DOB1951）
Central Military
Commission
General Office Joint Staff Department Political Work Department Logistic Support
Department Equipment Development
Department Training and
Administration Department National Defense
Mobilization Department Discipline Inspection
Commission Politics and Law
Commission Science and Technology
Commission Office for Strategic
Planning Office for Reform and
Organizational Structure Office for International
Military Cooperation Audit Office Agency for Offices
Administration
People's Liberation Army
(PLA)
People's Liberation Army Flag
(the two Chinese characters behind the star mean Eight and One,
indicating August 1st, the date PLA was founded.)
PLA Elblem
PLA
Army PLA
Navy PLA
Air Force PLA
Rocket Force PLA
Strategic Support Force
Five Theater Commands and headquarters
Eastern Theater Command - Nanjing,
Jiangsu Province
Western
Theater Command -
Chengdu, Sichuan Province
Southern Theater Command -
Guangzhou, Guangdong Province Northern Theater Command
-
Shenyang, Liaoning Province
Do
You Know? The
average monthly income of China armed force officers:
5373.14 yuan
RMB (around
US$826) based on the exchange rate in May 2011.
(source: PLA Daily May 19, 2011)
First
take-off and landing tests on China's first airplane carrier
Liaogning has been successful, and thousands of ordinary
Chinese watching the video of the airplane taking off from
carrier, the ground crew 's gesture while directing taking
off is considered very impressive and cool. Many people
around China have imitated the gesture and posted photos of
their gesture online to share.
(20121123)
PLA Navy Total 850,000 soldiers; 9,150 tanks;
6,600 armored vehicles, 1,200 self-propelled howitzer, 10,000
mortar, 4,000 multibarrel rocket launchers, 6,246 towed
howitzers, 1,531 antiaircraft artillery，8,000 anti-tank
warfare and 453
helicopters. (2014 collected) Army Rank: (Click
for picture)
Introduction
and General Information
Ground Force Aviation PLA Army Flag:
PLA Navy Flag
PLA Air Force Navy255,000 sailors; with 1 aifcraft carrier, 69 submarines;
29 destroyers; 49 frigates, 86 landing crafts, 39
minesweepers, 368 coast defense ships. China Naval Air Force
has 120 H5 bombers, 105 J7, J8 fighters, 100 JH7
fighter/bombers and 24 Su30 fighters
(2014 collected) Commander: General WU Shengli Political Commissar: General HU Yanlin Navy Rank: (Click
for picture)
Introduction and General Information
Marine Corps Naval Aviation PLA Navy Flag:
PLA Air Force Flag
PLA Rocket Force Total 130,000
soldiers, with 66 ICBM, 250 nuclear war head,118
intermediate-range ballistic missile, 204 short-range
ballistic missile, 54 land-based long-range cruise missile.
(2014
collected) Commander: General JING Zhiyuan Political Commissar: PENG Xiaofeng
Introduction and General Information
PLA Strategic Support Force Commander: Political Commissar:
2006-12-30 09:40
Two Jian-10 fighter planes of China
air force take off from a military base December 18, 2006. The air
force has been equipped with the new generation of Jian-10
fighter, independently designed by China. The fighter is capable
of launching "precision attacks while hedgehopping and making
long-distance assaults at altitude above 10,000 metres." [Xinhua]
PLA
soldiers are marching in front of Tiananmen Square
for a national flag raising ceremony
Video: Chinese Army
Parade Oct. 1st, 2009. Source: LCJ posted on Youtube.
Second Chinese stealth fighter makes
test flight - J-31 aircraft photographed
near Shenyang appears to be a smaller
version of the J-20 prototype tested
last year (click
for full story)
First China aircraft carrier sea trial
‘next week’ (click
for details)
China’s strategic subterfuge - The
planned naval base at the Gwadar port is
aimed at getting a foothold in the
great-power maritime game (click
for details)
In October of 1964, the People's Republic of China successfully exploded
its first atomic bomb. On October 27th, 1966, China fired her first
nuclear bomb from a guided missile. On June 17th, 1967 China had
exploded her first hydrogen bomb.
Disarmament
There are 9 Disarmament from the founding of the People's
Republic of China in 1949, the total number of troops disarmed in the
period is 7 million:
The 1st
disarmament:
at the end of 1950, 17.1 per cent of the total number of
5.5 million PLA was disarmed, the major
cut was carried out in ground force. (Later, due to the Korea War, the
total number of PLA had been greatly expanded and reached the peak in
the history of PLA, the total number of armed force was reached 6.11
million.)
The 2nd
disarmament:
January 1952, the total number of ground force was reduced from 2.58
million to 1.35 million. The total number of PLA was reduced to
3 million.
The 3rd
disarmament:
August 1953, the total number of PLA was cut 23.3 percent, and about 1/3
of the ground force was cut during the disarmament.
The 4th
disarmament:
January 1957. The total number of PLA was cut 1/3.
The 5th
disarmament:
End of 1957, the total number of PLA was cut 26.2 percent, among them,
27.3 percent of the ground force, 17 percent of the Navy and 16.4
percent of Air Force was cut .
The 6th,
7th and 8th disarmament: Carried out in 1978, 1980 and 1985
respectively, the total number of PLA was cut 1 million. During the
period, the original 11 Military Commands
(Regions) were cut into 7 Military Commands (Regions).
The 9th
disarmament
was in 1997, the PLA had been cut 500,000 people and some of the PLA
will be transferred into the Armed Police. The total number of armed
force: 2.5 million
The 10th
disarmament
was in 2003, the PLA cut 200,000 people (among them 170,000 were
officers), and the total number of armed force was reduced to
2.3 million.
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China's army shows new sophistication
CNN.com Mar. 5, 2004 - The men were an elite force of soldiers from the
Chinese People's Liberation Army deployed on a mission to undermine
archrival Taiwan. They didn't come armed with missiles or tanks. Their
weapon was water. (full
coverage)
What's
behind increase in the military budget Mar. 15,
2007 - At the Fifth Session of the 10th National People's Congress, it was
announced that the country's military budget for 2007 is 350.92 billion
yuan, or roughly US$44.94 billion. This marks a 17.8 per cent increase
over the previous year, or $6.8 billion. The increase has drawn wide
attention from the international community. Many express misgivings out of
shear misunderstanding. But some look at the increase through stained
lenses or stretch the matter to suit their own ends. Others try to use the
growth in China's military spending to create a propaganda splash. (Click
for full report)
Military officers for crash punished Reuters/China
Daily, Sep. 7, 2006
- China has punished nearly a dozen military officers in connection with a
plane crash in June that killed all 40 people on board, the Xinhua News
Agency reported on Thursday in an apparent sign of growing accountability.
Three People's Liberation Army officers, including the deputy commander of
the Nanjing Military Region, Jiang Jianzeng, were given demerit points, a
penalty considered a disgrace that damages prospects for promotion, Xinhua
news agency said, citing the Central Military Commission. Another was
sacked and one demoted, Xinhua said, adding six more were given either
warnings or demerit points. The cause of the June 3 crash of the military
transport plane in the eastern province of Anhui was blamed on a loss of
control due to components of the plane being frozen. Xinhua said several
military officials were also punished for negligence after 48 people were
killed and another 60 injured in flash floods which washed away a barracks
in July. The deputy head of the military corps was sacked and being
investigated by military prosecutors, Xinhua said. The head of the corps
was demoted and another five received demerit points or serious warnings.
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