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17:33, August 01, 2007 |
Thousands of servicemen from China''s land, navy and air forces wore their new uniforms on Wednesday at a grand rally marking the PLA''s 80th anniversary on which Chinese President Hu Jintao stressed the importance of army loyalty to the Communist Party of China (CPC).
"To follow the CPC''s command is the overriding political requirement that the Party and Chinese people have placed on the PLA and is the unshakable and fundamental principle for the PLA," said Hu, also general secretary of CPC Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), in his keynote speech.
On August 1, 1927, CPC-led armed forces held an uprising in Nanchang, now capital of east China''s Jiangxi Province, which is regarded as the founding day for the PLA.
"Over these 80 years, the PLA has fostered its fine revolutionary traditions," he said, stressing "the traditions, in essence, mean that the PLA is forever at the CPC''s command and the service of the people and should be valiant."
The PLA has made great contributions to national independence, prosperity and strength, and the well-being of the people over the past 80 years, under the leadership of three generations of the Party''s collective leadership with Mao Zedong, Deng Xiaoping and Jiang Zemin at its core, and under the leadership of the collective leadership of the Party formed at the Party''s 16th National Congress, said Hu.
The PLA currently has 2.3 million members. Since the founding of the People''s Republic of China in 1949, more than 300,000 army men have sacrificed their lives on duty in wars, at construction sites or fighting against SARS or floods.
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