China demobs soldiers
NZPA-Reuter Peking. • China has said that it - plans to demobilise 830,000 _ r soliders this year as well as • the 800,000 soldiers and vol- * * unteers it retired last year. ''• The New China News ; » Agency also gave' figures from the Ministry of Civil ; , Affairs showing that local z governments spent more j than 11 million yuan ($6.72 » million) last year on re- , settling veterans, most of , whom returned to their home towns. , China said last year it ’ would demobilise a million . of its 4.2 million-strong Armed Forces, to save money and produce a leaner and more efficient military force. A Western diplomat said 1 the latest demobilisation figures probably included reservists and ancillary J forces, such as construction '. corps. He said the demobilise- : tion, together with the 4 formal establishment of ♦ China’s first national de- ; fence university, were significant steps in the country’s ; bid to modernise and pro- J fessionalise its Armed • Forces. ■
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Press, 25 January 1986, Page 4
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