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The Central Military
Commission (CMC) is the highest military leading organ of the PRC. It
directs the armed forces of the country. The CMC is composed of the
chairman, vice chairmen and members. The chairman of the CMC is elected to
the same length of term as the NPC, but there is no restriction on his/her
tenure of office.
The armed forces of the PRC are composed of
the People's Liberation Army (PLA), the Chinese People's Armed Police
Force and the militia. (Click
for China Military and Armed Force Information.)
The members of Central
Military Commission are:
Hu
Jintao named chairman of CPC Central Military Commission (Oct. 21, 2007) Hu
Jintao was named chairman of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central
Military Commission at the first plenary session of the 17th CPC Central
Committee on Monday.
Hu succeeded Jiang Zemin as chairman of the CPC Central Military
Commission in September 2004 after Jiang resigned. Before that Hu had
been vice chairman of the commission since 1999.
The first plenum also decided Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou to be vice
chairmen of the military commission, and Liang Guanglie, Chen Bingde, Li
Jinai, Liao Xilong, Chang Wanquan, Jing Zhiyuan, Wu Shengli and Xu
Qiliang as members.
Hu became an alternate member and then member of the 12th CPC Central
Committee, and has been a member of the Standing Committee of the
Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee since 1992.
Hu was also elected on Monday China's Communist Party chief for the
second term.
A native of Jixi County, Anhui Province, Hu was born in December 1942.
In 1959, he was enrolled by Qinghua University and graduated from the
Hydraulic Engineering Department in 1965. He joined the Party in April
1964.
"We will pursue an independent foreign policy of peace and unswervingly
follow the path of peaceful development and a win-win strategy of
opening up," Hu said Monday when meeting the press.
Hu said a week ago in a report at the 17th CPC National Congress that
China is to modernize its armed forces but stressed that "China follows
a national defense policy that is defensive in nature, and it does not
engage in arms race or pose a military threat to any other country."
China opposes all forms of hegemonism and power politics and will never
seek hegemony or engage in expansion, Hu said.
The armed forces of China have been reduced by 200,000 troops since
2002, he said. (Xinhua Oct 22, 2007)
Members of Last (16th) Central Military Commission:
On March 13, 2005, the
Third Session of the 10th NPC elected
Hu
Jintao as CMC chairman. Nominated by Chairman Hu, the session also
adjusted and enlarged the CMC composition, which currently includes vice
chairmen of
Guo Boxiong,
Cao Gangchuan and
Xu
Caihou, as well as members of
Liang Guanglie,
Li
Jinai,
Liao Xilong, Chen Bingde, Qiao Qingchen, Zhang Dingfa and Jing Zhiyuan.
(March 13, 2005)
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