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The People’s Republic of China has announced realistic training, force-on-force exercises, joint military training, and focus on unmanned and intelligent capabilities to improve the country’s military forces in 2024.
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The Chinese military at all levels will study and follow the guiding principles of the 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party and focus on achieving the military’s centenary goal, according to PRC Ministry of National Defense spokesperson Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang.
“The troops have started activities including combat commanding research and exercises, force-on-force exercises, military skills competition, and readiness drills, with military training and combat readiness in full swing,” said Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang during a press conference held on 12 January this year.
“We will step-up realistic training and push forward the transformation and upgrading of military training.
“First, we will enhance basic training. The PLA will follow the principles detailed in the on-site meeting on basic training to promote models and measures including specialised teaching, integrated training, simulation training, and standardised assessment. Extensive military training and competitions will be carried out to lay a solid foundation for fighting and winning wars.
“Second, we will strengthen force-on-force training. The military will establish complex training environment and authentically simulate combat opponents to strengthen command and force-on-force exercises. Emphasis will be placed on continuous day-to-night force-on-force training and exercises under extreme conditions to relentlessly hone the troops.
“Third, we will improve joint training. We will deepen joint operations and training, strengthen training for frontline troops, and expand realistic joint exercises. More efforts will be made to organise joint formations consisting of different services and arms and use different formations as each other’s opponent or condition for training, to accelerate the enhancement of integrated joint operational capabilities.
“Fourth, we will bolster training with technological application. Aiming at high-end warfare, we will strengthen research and training in informationised and intelligent warfare, ensure effective training in the operational application of new equipment centred on unmanned and intelligent capabilities, and cultivate new growth poles of asymmetric combat capabilities.”
PRC military forces are undertaking extensive military training and upgrading preparedness for the new era and to comprehensively build an elite and reliable military force that reassures the party and the people, he said.
In addition, Central Military Commission chairman President Xi Jinping has signed an order to release 58 regulations on transportation and force projection by the military, as of 1 January this year. The regulations include ideological guidance, combat readiness, reform and innovation, and systematic planning.
