Xi asks military to be combat-ready
13 Dec 2012 6:49 AM IST
Consolidating his hold on the powerful military, China's new leader Xi Jinping has ordered the 2.3 million-strong People's Liberation Army to ‘obey’ the commands of the ruling Communist Party and asked it to be combat-ready.
On his first visit out of Beijing after his election as the General Secretary of the Party replacing President Hu Jintao, Xi visited ‘Guangzhou military theatre of operations, a term usually used to emphasise the coordination and joint operations by forces in air, land and sea,’ a Defence Ministry statement said on Wednesday.
‘Bear in mind that it is the soul of the military to obey the command of the Party without compromise, it is the top priority for the military to be able to combat and win battles, and it is fundamental that the military consolidate itself through governing the troops lawfully and austerely, so as to reinforce its development featuring loyalty to the Party, modernisation and standardisation,’ Xi told officers above the division level of the garrison troops in Guangzhou.
Besides taking over as Party Chief, he also assumed the post of Chief of Military Commission, which makes him the Chief of People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces.
On his first visit out of Beijing after his election as the General Secretary of the Party replacing President Hu Jintao, Xi visited ‘Guangzhou military theatre of operations, a term usually used to emphasise the coordination and joint operations by forces in air, land and sea,’ a Defence Ministry statement said on Wednesday.
‘Bear in mind that it is the soul of the military to obey the command of the Party without compromise, it is the top priority for the military to be able to combat and win battles, and it is fundamental that the military consolidate itself through governing the troops lawfully and austerely, so as to reinforce its development featuring loyalty to the Party, modernisation and standardisation,’ Xi told officers above the division level of the garrison troops in Guangzhou.
Besides taking over as Party Chief, he also assumed the post of Chief of Military Commission, which makes him the Chief of People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces.
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