Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the military to strengthen training to hone its combat skills and remain on high alert as the new revised defence law expanding the powers of the armed forces came into force from this year.
The country’s official news agency Xinhua reported that the president urged the armed forces to be combat ready at all times.
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“People’s Liberation Army (PLA) must be ready to ‘act at any second’ and should remain on ‘full-time combat readiness’,” Xi reportedly said.
“[The PLA must] increase the integration of new equipment, new forces and new combat realms into training and combat systems,” he said.
