TIL Desk/World/Washington/ China’s military, the world’s largest force, has cut the size of its land-based army by about 50 per cent and significantly boosted its navy and air force as part of an “unprecedented” strategic shift designed to transform the People’s Liberation Army into a comprehensive modern force.
The 2 million-strong Chinese military has significantly boosted its navy, air force and new strategic units and downsized its land-based army.
In a feature report highlighting the “transformational changes” made by the PLA, a news agency on Sunday said “this new data is unprecedented in the history of the PLA – the army now accounts for less than 50 per cent of the total number of PLA troops; almost half of our non-combatant units have been made redundant, and the number of officers in the PLA has been reduced by 30 per cent.
”In the last few years, the PLA has downsized its military by retrenching three lakh troops under the military reforms initiated by Chinese President Xi Jinping. But it still remained the world’s largest military with two million personnel in the ranks.
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