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Jiang Urges Army to Prepare for Military, Anti-Terror Struggles
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Xinhuanet 2002-03-12 21:38:37
BEIJING, March 12 (Xinhuanet) -- State President and Chairman of
the Central Military Commission (CMC) Jiang Zemin has urged China'
s armed forces to make solid preparations for military struggles
and include anti-terrorism in the military's duties.
He also called for efforts to ensure a high degree of stability,
centralization and unity for the armed forces.
Jiang, who is also general secretary of the Central Committee
of Communist Party of China (CPC), focused on a number of major
issues regarding military affairs, when he addressed Tuesday a
plenary meeting of the delegation of the Chinese People's
Liberation Army (PLA) to the annual session of the National People
's Congress (NPC).
Also present at the meeting were Vice-President Hu Jintao, who
is also vice CMC chairman and member of the CPC Central Committee
Political Bureau Standing Committee, and vice CMC chairmen Zhang
Wannian and Chi Haotian.
In his address, the president said to solve the issue of Taiwan
and realize complete reunification of the motherland is one of the
three major tasks for the Party and the nation in the new century.
Jiang called the PLA the loyal guardian of national security,
sovereignty and territorial integrity, and an important force to
safeguard social stability.
He called for closely following the latest developments of
military strength in the world, with wide application of new and
high technologies, especially information technology, and for
planning and implementing the modernization of China's armed
forces at a higher altitude.
After its entry to the World Trade Organization, China is
expected to further deepen its involvement in international
economic cooperation and competition, Jiang said. He called for
making use of all kinds of resources and learning useful
experience from foreign armies, in order to strengthen the PLA
consistently.
In his speech, Jiang reiterated the importance of application
of the "Three Represent's" theory in Party Building and praised
the PLA for earnestly studying and applying the theory.
Training of personnel is a fundamental task for the
modernization of the military, while reform and innovation are the
powerful driving force for the development of the armed forces,
according to the top leader.
Jiang said that the military is the people's armed forces under
the absolute leadership of the Party and must firmly abide by and
implement, in an exemplary manner, the Party's theory, line and
program, and maintain in high conformity with the Party Central
Committee ideologically and politically.
This is the most fundamental requirement of the Party for the
armed forces, he stressed.
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