CHENGDU – Chinese President Xi Jinping has stressed the need to speed up efforts to boost the modernization of the armed forces.
Xi, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remarks on Wednesday in southwest China's Sichuan province while inspecting the air force of the Western Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).
Xi made the inspection tour ahead of China's Army Day, which falls on Aug 1.
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On behalf of the CPC Central Committee and the CMC, Xi extended sincere greetings to all the officers and soldiers of the air force of the command, as well as festival greetings to service personnel of the PLA and the People's Armed Police Force, civilian personnel posted in the military, and members of militia and reserve forces.