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Deputies of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) share a view
during their panel discussions at on-going First Session of the
National People Congress (NPC) that "it is more sacred to win peace
than fighting a war, whereas military might is a guarantee for
peace."
And they voiced their pledge Monday to fulfill the historical
mission of mechanizing the army and equip it with Information
Technology (IT) applications, which had been laid down during the
Communist Party of China (CPC) National Congress held in mid
November last year.
Military security represents the top priority for China's state
security, the PLA deputies noted, and powerful military security
guarantee is required by the building of a prospering society in
China in an all-round way.
China is in need of a strong military force in the course of
building a prospering society, according to NPC deputies from the
Chinese army.
"Military might, economic power and the innate cohesive strength of
the Chinese nation constitute the three nuclei component parts of
the overall national strength," said Huo Xiaoyong, a NPC deputy and
a noted researcher of arms and services with the prestigious
University of National Defense.
"Without the corresponding strong military force, the all-round
national strength is inadequate," Huo added.
While peace and development remain the major themes of the
contemporary world, undefined factors are on the rise, the
international political and economic order, which are unjust and
irrational, have not been altered fundamentally, and sources of war
have not yet been eliminated, and the motive factors are inclining
to be accelerated and generalized.
On
the topic of military security, Yao Yunzhu, a woman with a
doctorate of strategic studies at the PLA Military Academy of
Sciences, referred the situation confronted with the Chinese army
to the popular classic poetic line that " the wind sweeping the
tower heralds a rising storm in the mountains."
"All countries are beefing up their spending on national defense in
a hope of being able to keep a possible upper hand in the rapid
volatile changes in the world," Yao said, adding that " If our army
does not seize the opportunity and fail to face up the challenges,
we'll possibly run into the risk of being left far behind," said
Yao.
The Chinese armed forces have been shifting its emphasis to its
competence and high efficiency from quantities and large scales,
and to the type of being science-and-tehnology-oriented from the
relative human power concentration, Yao acknowledged. And
noticeable progress has so far been scored in the country's
national defense modernization.
(Xinhua News Agency March 17, 2003)
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