The Chinese military will embark on a massive hardware upgrade and top personnel shake-up under President Xi Jinping's orders for the PLA to become a world-class fighting force in the next three decades.
Laying out his ambitious plan for the People's Liberation Army in a report to the Communist Party's national congress on Wednesday, Xi said the PLA must modernise by 2035 and become a top-ranked military by 2050.
“A military force is built to fight. Our military must regard combat readiness as the goal for all its work and focus on how to win when it is called upon,” Xi said.
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