On New Year, many new technological achievements for the PLA reported; The PLA stresses on improving logistics; The PLA hold the first nationwide emergency militia backbone training class;
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    • Reports noted that PLA has introduced a new-type training vessel whose speed is two times faster than that of the normal vessel. The Shenyang Military Area Command of the Chinese People's Liberation Army has piloted this vessel. It is equipped with short wave and microwave communication systems to accurately transmit intelligence and information in the range of thousand kilometers. The hull of the vessel is coated with invisible paint to provide it stealth. The vessel can also pick up underwater vehicle to greatly enhance the support efficiency of the vessel.1

    The PLA has introduced a new type of made-in-China armed helicopters in an army aviation brigade of the Xinjiang Military Area Command. Their training started on 6 January 6, 2011. The training was held at the minus 38 degrees temperature and less than 300 meters visibility. It is learnt that five new-type armed helicopters among the eight helicopters participated in the training.2

    A computing institute of PLA stationed in Southwest China’s Sichuan Province has developed a new-type pilot less reconnaissance aircraft jointly with military industrial enterprises to improve the long-range artillery’s strike accuracy and damage performance. It is reported that the new-type pilot less reconnaissance aircraft has a high integration of multiple functions including commanding, launching, retrieving and ferrying. The design of “double horizontal tail” aerodynamic configuration is adopted to reduce structure size and enhance flight efficiency.3 However, other reports noted that the PLA has introduced a new-type patrol vehicle in a frontier defense regiment of the Shenyang Military Area Command of the PLA which enables the PLA to do a better patrolling in -30°C temperature.4

    The General Logistics Department (GLD) of the PLA has recently issued the Target Framework on All-Roundly Promoting Pilot Work of Modern Logistics, requiring the logistics system of the PLA to follow the framework and push forward the development of the pilot work which is expected to explore the way and accumulate experience of promoting modern logistics of the PLA in an all-round way. The Framework specifies the tasks as follows: supply, management, construction, training and restructuring, and provides a new summary of the targets of the pilot work.5

    Recently, the General Staff Headquarters of the PLA held the first nationwide emergency militia backbone training class in the PLA Shijiazhuang Army Command College. 70 professional backbones from 31 provincial military commands (garrison commands) throughout China participated in this 15-day-long training.6

    In other developments, the POL Institute under the General Logistics Department (GLD) of the PLA has speeded up its pace of scientific and technical research by using technologies like communication, network, electron, ultrasonic and optical fiber transmission and focusing on the information-based management of equipments, command platform and oil depot. It wants to achieve the aim of building “an information-based military” to win “the information war” during the 11th Five-Year Plan period itself.7

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