caa a22 4500 388104821 CHVBK 20180307125334.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199906 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0305741000005798 doi S0305741000005798 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0305741000005798 Li Nan Organizational Changes of the PLA, 1985-1997 [Elektronische Daten] [Nan Li] At the 15th Chinese Communist Party (CCP) Congress held in September 1997, Chinese leader Jiang Zemin announced that the People's Liberation Army (PLA) would reduce its manpower by 500,000 in the next three years. This is apparently a new step to deepen the military reform that Deng Xiaoping had initiated in early 1980s. Such reform aims to transform the PLA from a manpower-based military geared toward fighting a major defensive "people's war” to a technology-based military capable of forward deployment to deal with more variegated local contingencies. While substantial research has been done on major aspects of this reform, changes within major PLA organizations, such as the Central Military Commission (CMC), the higher command structure, the research and learning institutions, and the force structure, have not been adequately and systematically analysed. This study intends to shed light on these changes. Such a study is necessary and significant also because it helps towards an understanding of the extent, direction and problems of China's defence modernization drive, which may have important implications for Asian security. Finally, it provides an analytical framework for research regarding further organizational changes of the PLA. Copyright © The China Quarterly 1999 The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 158(1999-06), 314-349 0305-7410 158<314 1999 158 CQY https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000005798 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0305741000005798 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Li Nan NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The China Quarterly Cambridge University Press 158(1999-06), 314-349 0305-7410 158<314 1999 158 CQY CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge