China non-combat personnel includes high-profile mistress-generals

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China has the world’s largest military force in terms of total number of personnel.

People’s Liberation Army soldiers perform a musical drama as part of celebrations for the 60th anniversary of the founding of Communist China in August 2013. /Reuters

However, the PLA also distinguishes itself for keeping a large number of non-combat military personnel who have often been promoted faster and more prominently than many combat personnel. Xi Jinping is determined to change that.

Starting Aug. 1, the PLA will have a new promotion and award procedure called the “Troops Awards and Praise Management Regulations, which focuses strictly on “combat capability” as the only standard to promote and reward its troops.

The impetus for such new regulations may have come from the rampant expansion of influence of Chinese military entertainers as a result of corrupt PLA senior officials’ urging over the decades.

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