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PLA
Daily 2004-08-18
One objective: Build
a powerful, modern and regularized revolutionary army
A major issue weighed by Deng
Xiaoping was the type of armed forces China needed to
build and how China could do it in the new historical
period.
Deng Xiaoping made an important
decision in March 1981 to hold a large-scale military
exercise.
On hearing reports by the responsible
leaders of the General Staff Headquarters of the PLA,
Deng Xiaoping urged again and again that it was a very
long time ago when the PLA was engaged in a war and
that we needed combined forces that could fight not
only on the ground but also in the sky. The troop's
capability in fighting actual war should be enhanced
through training.
In the fall of 1981, a majestic
and daring super-scale military exercise by the PLA
was kicked off, which was its largest ever combined
exercise involving all services and arms and conducted
in the light of the requirements of modern wars. A spectacular
view of military exercise started to unfold in a magnificent
scale at the foot of the Yanshan Mountain with armored
vehicles sweeping through the length and breadth of
the territory and fighters roaring in the sky. Deng
Xiaoping, commander of the Chinese armed forces, personally
viewed the exercise.
When the exercise came to a
close, Deng Xiaoping, newly elected chairman of the
Central Military Commission in June 1981 at the Sixth
Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of
the CPC, got into an open car and inspected the troops.
It was exactly on that occasion, he succinctly generalized,
while addressing the troops, the overall objective for
building the armed forces in the new historical period
into the following: Build a powerful, modern and regularized
revolutionary army.
Deng Xiaoping then wrote the
following inscription, "Strive for building our armed
forces into a powerful, modern and regularized revolutionary
army", which can be seen now in every barracks wherever
you go in China.
Of the three dialectical aspects
that make up the general objective of army building
with Chinese characteristics, revolutionization enjoys
the priority, modernization is the center and regularization
is the guarantee.
By Huang Guozhu, Jia Yong and
Cao Zhi
(August 18, PLA Daily)
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