Military Training
In
compliance with the general requirements of being qualified politically and
competent militarily and having a fine style of work, strict discipline and
adequate logistical support, and focusing on the two historic tasks of being
capable of winning and never degenera
ting, the PLA strives to strengthen its
overall development and form a revolutionary, modernized and regularized
people's army.
The PLA strives to adapt itself to the
characteristics of modern warfare, takes enhancement of the capability of
defensive operations under high-tech conditions as the main objective, and
continuously strengthens and improves military training.
Over the past two years, the
PLA has quickened its steps in transforming the training - from the conventional
training to one featuring new technology. It has made full use of modern science
and technology to organize and implement military training. In October 2000, the
General Staff Headquarters organized a large-scale high-tech military exercise
in the vicinity of Beijing and used such new and high technologies as computer
networking, reconnaissance sensing, ECM and simulation to drill and test the new
operational concepts, weaponry and training methods. The latest achievements
gained in military training featuring new technologies were exchanged among the
troops.
In line with the new generation of operational
doctrines, the PLA focuses on the studies and training of joint operations. The
annual regular exercises organized by the military area commands and services
and arms all concentrate on joint operations. In the spring and summer of 2001,
both Nanjing and Guangzhou military area commands organized field exercises with
joint landing operations as the backdrop, focusing on the coordination of joint
and combined arms landing operation, and drew useful lessons on how to organize,
support and manage joint training, ground force amphibious landing training, and
training of rapid reserve mobilization. In addition, the general
headquarters/departments organized successive studies and exercises of
communications and command at the joint operational level, training of landing
and mountain operations, research on methods of joint penetration operations,
and explored the features and patterns of integrated network and electronic
warfare.
The PLA has enforced new military training regulations
and strengthened regularized training. On the basis of extensively absorbing the
achievements of the armed forces' training reform and the experience gained in
troop training featuring new technologies, the General Staff Headquarters
revised and adjusted the system of content of the PLA's military training,
promulgated the Outline of Military Training and Evaluation in July 2001, and
organized a training course of the Outline in a combined corps in northern China
in September 2001. In September 2002, the CMC promulgated the new Regulations on
Military Training of the PLA comprehensively and systematically standardizing
the organization, leadership and administration of military training.
The PLA has continued to deepen the reform of
institutional education. In line with the general concept of "running schools in
large scale, modernizing teaching, regularizing administration and outsourcing
logistic support," the PLA has further improved its new system of institutional
education and established a teaching system consonant with military, sci-tech
and educational developments. In recent years, on the basis of fulfilling the
major construction tasks of 18 colleges and schools, 60 disciplines and 31
laboratories, the PLA has launched the Key Construction Project of Military
Colleges and Schools, whereby efforts are being focused on 67 domains of
disciplines and specialties, and 178 research centers. So far 58 have been
qualified as state-level key disciplines and specialties. The general
headquarters/departments have promulgated the first catalogue of disciplines and
specialties of the PLA's colleges and schools, thus setting up a new system of
disciplines and specialties. Deepening teaching reform with teaching content as
the focal point, colleges and schools of the PLA have formulated a new teaching
program, implemented a key teaching material development project, and perfected
the teaching appraisal system. At the same time, informationization and
networking of teaching have been promoted, and an information network platform
for the armed forces' teaching and scientific research has been initially put in
place, giving shape to a training information network linking PLA's colleges and
schools and having nearly 100,000 websites and centers.
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