In the past six years, the Research, Development and Procurement Department for the Army Armaments of the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the PLA has actively carried out qualification review for manufacturing units and implemented market access system for military products. Up to now it has totally carried out qualification review over 460 enterprises, laying a firm foundation for innovating procurement modes, fostering military products markets and breaking industrial monopolies.

　　First, it invites integrated bidding for key armaments. In the procurement of a certain type of armament, it broke traditional industrial boundary to invite space, weaponry, defense and shipping industrial enterprises to take part in the bidding. And it selected several qualified manufacturing units through competitive bidding, which shortened the cycle of armament development and production from 45 months to 36 months and reduced total procurement expenditure by more than 10 million yuan.

　　Second, it introduces competitive mechanism in support equipment procurement. As wheeled maintenance and repair engineering vehicles are simple in technique and production of these vehicles were concentrated in the same period of time, the department finally chose seven good-quality manufacturers from among over 30 industrial enterprises and institutions to undertake the task, so as to achieve the goal of good quality and good price.

　　Last but not the least, it adopts competitive procurement of civilian equipment for military use. Currently, military-civilian dual-purpose equipment takes up a large proportion of engineering equipment and general-purpose vehicles of the army to be procured. In the past few years, by adopting several different procurement modes to purchase 31 types of military-civilian dual-purpose equipment, this department has saved 177 million yuan of equipment procurement expenditure.

　　(Nov 18, PLA Daily)                                                    Editor: Dong Zhaohui