PRC White Paper expands integration of military, civilian sectors

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Much of the discussion of the People’s Liberation Army’s just-released White Paper — China’s Military Strategy — has focused on a leap forward in China’s global hard-power projection, particularly new emphasis being put on enhanced naval, space and cyberwarfare capacities.

Primary school students at a summer military school in Jinan, east China's Shandong Province. — Primary school students at a summer military school in Jinan, east China’s Shandong Province.

Equally important for the long-term development of the country’s defense capability, however, is President Xi Jinping’s concept of civil-military integration (CMI).

An expansion of Chairman Mao Zedong’s ethos about “the synthesis of peacetime and wartime [requirements],” CMI essentially means that the military can have ready access to industrial and technological resources in the national economy.

Moreover, training of ordinary Chinese in what PLA commissars call “national defense mobilization” will be stepped up.

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