Military Voices
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Military deputy to NPC urges improving response mechanisms for public health emergencies
The Delegation of the PLA and PAP held a plenary meeting at the third session of the NPC on Tuesday afternoon. Eight deputies to the NPC addressed at the meeting, among whom Lieut. Gen. Li Yong, commander of the Joint Logistic Support Force(JLSF), put forward suggestions on how to improve the response mechanisms for public health emergencies.
2020-05-27 17:55 -
Military deputies and members of two sessions discuss educational topics
During the ongoing two sessions, some military deputies shared experience on topics in the educational sector that have drawn close attention recently and submitted relevant motions and proposals.
2020-05-27 17:35 -
China's moderate and steady defense budget increase reasonable and necessary
The scale and structure of China's defense budget is reasonably determined in accordance with the level of national economic development and defense demand, said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, the spokesperson for the delegation of the PLA and the PAP Force on Tuesday when interviewed by the media.
2020-05-26 22:00 -
Military deputy to NPC calls for introduction of National Public Health Law
Chen Xiangmei, a military deputy to the NPC believes that how to deal with the outbreak of new infectious diseases, especially how to improve the prevention and control measures to new infectious diseases from a legal perspective has being emerging as a major and urgent task.
2020-05-26 21:30 -
Military deputy to NPC suggests unified system for military-civil counter-emergency activities
A deputy to the NPC believed that the military-civil joint prevention and control mechanism together with society-wide efforts to prevent and control the epidemic has played a critical role in defeating and preventing the virus, while also exposing some shortcomings and deficiencies at the same time.
2020-05-26 19:43 -
Officer, lawmaker notes PLA Navy's success in pirate-infested waters
Captain Zhao Yanquan, commander of a People's Liberation Army Navy destroyer and national lawmaker, said on Monday that the Navy's escort missions to the Gulf of Aden have offered protection for more than 6,700 Chinese and foreign ships.
2020-05-25 23:16 -
CPPCC member suggests ensuring veterans’ job security
The member of Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference (CPPCC) and former deputy director of the Political Work Department under the Central Military Commission (CMC), made suggestions on arrangements of veterans' employment.
2020-05-25 22:39 -
Military deputies to NPC deliberate draft central and local budgets for 2020
2020 marks the last year of the decisive battle to overcome poverty and build a moderately prosperous society in all respects. It is also the year to realize the goals and targets in Chinese national defense and military construction. However, due to the double impact of the COVID-19 epidemic and the ever-growing downward pressure on economic growth.
2020-05-25 22:31 -
PLA naval deputy to NPC talks about technological innovation in equipment protection
"The corrosion prevention and control of equipment is a strategic project for the navy. It is necessary to think from a macro-strategic perspective, and start with the innovative details", said Cao Jingyi, a deputy to the National People's Congress (NPC) of China and research director with the PLA Navy Academy.
2020-05-21 21:34 -
Military deputies to NPC talk about advancing actual combat training
The PLA has showcased various new-type combined arms forces on our military training range and carried out intensive actual combat training. Behind these drills is the common focus on systematic support.
2020-05-22 18:49 -
Chinese military urges US to immediately stop arms sales to Taiwan
The Chinese military expressed strong dissatisfaction and firm opposition on Sunday to the US selling Taiwan $180 million of equipment including torpedoes, and strongly urged the US side to immediately stop arms sales to Taiwan and stop military ties with Taiwan.
2020-05-24 23:03 -
China further lowers defense budget growth to 6.6 pct
China will continue to lower its defense budget growth rate to 6.6 percent in 2020, according to a draft budget report Friday.
2020-05-22 15:00 -
New soldiers show enhanced qualities, leading officer says
China's new generation of soldiers have developed better comprehensive qualities, are physically stronger, better educated and more enthusiastic in serving the country, said Senior Colonel Wei Changjin, political commissar of the Zaozhuang Regional Military Command, on Wednesday.
2020-05-16 17:30 -
China lowers defense budget growth to 7.5% in 2019
China announced Tuesday that its defense budget for 2019 is 1.1899 trillion yuan ($177.5 billion), a 7.5 percent increase from 2018, lower than the 8.1 percent increase from the previous year.
2019-03-05 16:02 -
China drafting veterans' welfare law
China is drafting a law on the welfare of military veterans and may submit it to the top legislature for deliberation in the second half of 2019, a minister said Sunday.
2019-03-03 02:22 -
China ramps up efforts in protecting veteran rights
A draft law on supporting veterans is expected to be submitted to the national legislature for reading in the second half of this year if everything progresses well.
2019-03-03 02:22