China to keep closer eye on military spending, improve efficiency : Xinhua

[AMDR]

China to keep closer eye on military spending: Xinhua - Channel NewsAsia

BEIJING: China intends to improve efficiency in military spending through tighter monitoring of how funds are used, state media reported Sunday (Oct 26).

Under the new "results-based management system" set to be fully operational by 2020, individuals and military units will be held accountable for inefficiency, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

It cited what it described as a "circular approved by the Central Military Commission and made public on Sunday". The General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) approved the circular, Xinhua said.

Xinhua quoted Zhao Keshi, head of the department, as saying that the system would ensure that military spending effectively goes to improve combat capability.

"The circular said modern warfare is based on huge consumption of money and materials, and cost-output management should always be an important consideration for the military," the report said. "It urged accurate formulation of military budgets, strengthened monitoring of the budget execution, and strict accountability for those who failed to achieve the goals set."

The system will start on a pilot basis this year at PLA headquarters and regional military commands in five areas including fiscal management and military hospitals, Xinhua cited the circular as saying.

China announced in March that it plans to spend 808.23 billion yuan (US$132 billion) on the PLA in 2014, up 12.2 percent from the year before and the latest double-digit increase. Beijing's rising military spending has raised concerns among countries in the Asia-Pacific such as Japan and the Philippines, with which China is embroiled in maritime territorial disputes.

President Xi Jinping has repeatedly urged the armed forces to strengthen their capacity to "win battles". China insists it poses no threat to any country, but is committed to defending its interests and modernising its armed forces.

News of the plan to increase military spending efficiency comes as Xi wages a campaign to root out widespread corruption in the Communist Party and military, both of which he heads.

- AFP/xq

 

[Aepsilons]

China to keep closer eye on military spending: Xinhua - Channel NewsAsia

BEIJING: China intends to improve efficiency in military spending through tighter monitoring of how funds are used, state media reported Sunday (Oct 26).

Under the new "results-based management system" set to be fully operational by 2020, individuals and military units will be held accountable for inefficiency, the state-run Xinhua news agency said.

It cited what it described as a "circular approved by the Central Military Commission and made public on Sunday". The General Logistics Department of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) approved the circular, Xinhua said.

Xinhua quoted Zhao Keshi, head of the department, as saying that the system would ensure that military spending effectively goes to improve combat capability.

"The circular said modern warfare is based on huge consumption of money and materials, and cost-output management should always be an important consideration for the military," the report said. "It urged accurate formulation of military budgets, strengthened monitoring of the budget execution, and strict accountability for those who failed to achieve the goals set."

The system will start on a pilot basis this year at PLA headquarters and regional military commands in five areas including fiscal management and military hospitals, Xinhua cited the circular as saying.

China announced in March that it plans to spend 808.23 billion yuan (US$132 billion) on the PLA in 2014, up 12.2 percent from the year before and the latest double-digit increase. Beijing's rising military spending has raised concerns among countries in the Asia-Pacific such as Japan and the Philippines, with which China is embroiled in maritime territorial disputes.

President Xi Jinping has repeatedly urged the armed forces to strengthen their capacity to "win battles". China insists it poses no threat to any country, but is committed to defending its interests and modernising its armed forces.

News of the plan to increase military spending efficiency comes as Xi wages a campaign to root out widespread corruption in the Communist Party and military, both of which he heads.

- AFP/xq

Good read. I'm interested to know if the PLA expects to reduce the army size with these qualitative improvement plans.

 

[Aepsilons]

islam is a religion of peace in which there are total 123 verses of violance

islam respects women in which their prophet fuked a 9 year old child

islam respects human rights in which they have sharia law

if allah is true god then how it is possible that he only knows arabic?
how is it possible that he made all humans without any religion and then realizes that it is not good lol

how is it possible that he made all humans without any restriction to live but then realizes that veil is necessary for women? again fuk allah

challenge to all muslims just explain quran 9:5

Goodbye!

 

[AgentOrange]

Goodbye!

lolwut? Bro, what the hell happened?

 

[AgentOrange]

Good read. I'm interested to know if the PLA expects to reduce the army size with these qualitative improvement plans.

I don't know why certain articles still quote the PLA's size as 2.3 - 2.5 million. In fact, I've read somewhere that the PLA was down to about 1.8 million (total of all branches). Can anyone help me with the exact numbers? Also, the PLA historically includes a lot of "PLA civilians" (akin to civilians with security clearance that work at the Pentagon, for ex) in its ranks when considering size.
Based on PLA parameters, the United States Military is actually the world's largest.

Col Dennis J. Blasko mentions this in his book "The Chinese Army Today", actually.

Anyways, here's an article mentioning further PLA reductions.

China cuts size of PLA, opens industry to civilian firms CCTV News - CNTV English

 

[kyle Chiang]

Chinese army has a belief that "As a soldier,you only have two situations: in war or to be in war".That's why President Xi claimed the slogan "win battles" .Not because we are really want to fight soon.
A Chinese famous saying "生于忧患，死于安乐" means "you will survive in (worrying about) disasters, perish in comfort".The belief comes from this thought.

 

[Aepsilons]

lolwut? Bro, what the hell happened?

Some troll trying to ruin this thread.

 

[desimorty]

called it. The military spending by CCP is a black hole just like the space spending. We can only guess as to how much they really spend. Their are a lot of 'private' enterprises that are on PLA pay roll or CCP pay roll. There are a lot of projects that never fruited and even had a horrible conception which is why the CCP/PLA are buying licences production from Russia. The WS-10 engine is another story of pushing something towards production even though its no where near the orginal goals, infact is more unreliable that the Russian engines, which it happens to be a modest imitation of. One can't blame China, since their is a arms embargo intact and sensitive technology cooperation is far from them, but the surplus spending they are doing today could not last.
If the CCP wants to be more critical on the military/RnD spending they need to be more transparent but this is not the CCP/PLAs hallmark.
If someone wants to disagree, I would happily oblige but before you do, please recall, all the RnD effort up till now that never amounted to a success.

 

[longyi]

Good, learn from others' mistakes, better set things straight now before it's too late.


Don’t Ask the Pentagon Where Its Money Goes


The Pentagon is long overdue for an audit of its $555 billion budget, but Congress has failed to hold it accountable.


Don’t Ask the Pentagon Where Its Money Goes - FPIF

 

[desimorty]

Actually while we can scrutinize Pentagons spending as much as we can, we do know the Pentagon financial spending is a role model! Pound for pound, and it took WW2 and cold war to develop this level of efficiency.