From Goh Sui Noi, Straits Times: “As part of ongoing military reforms, China has set up a central commission to facilitate the sharing of technology and resources between the armed forces and the civilian sector. The new agency, to be headed by President Xi Jinping, will also facilitate the demilitarisation of some of the military's assets, according to regional security expert Li Mingjiang of the S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies.”
From Dennis J. Blasko, War on the Rocks: “Over the past year, the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) started implementing a series of major changes to its national and theater (regional) levels of command, the “institutions” that plan, command, and sustain joint operations. With no modern combat experience in complex combined arms or joint operations and according to conclusions found in their own self-examinations, the maturation of the PLA's command structure has not kept pace with the new weapons and capabilities that have entered the force over the past two decades. The fundamental factor in building these new headquarters is improving the quality of commanders and staff personnel, a complex process, which as Gen. Dempsey noted, does not happen quickly in any military force.”