China: Xi urges a new arms situation

(ANSA) - BEIJING, OCTOBER 27 - Chinese President Xi Jinping, head of the Central Military Commission, urged the need to create a "new situation" in the construction and management of weapons and military equipment, part of the efforts to reach a category of armed forces world level.

    Xi, speaking at a conference attended by military leaders, hoped - in the report of the Xinhua agency - the detailed implementation of the lines on strengthening the army and the construction of a "modern management of weapons and equipment to create a completely new situation" .

    The event was also attended by Zhang Youxia, vice president of the Commission, who reiterated the need to "accelerate the construction of a new development model for the construction of weapons and equipment", aiming at China's "technological self-sufficiency".

(HANDLE).