Mr. Jiang Zemin, Chairman of the Central Military Committee announced recently that the PLA (People's Liberation Army) will be slimmed by 200,000 within two years from the current 2.5 million to 2.3 million. Yet the new size of China’s military will remain the biggest that have count. Mr. Jiang's speech highly displayed the China's determination to strengthen the armed forces with high-technology.
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