Hu Jintao said Thursday that China will strive to basically complete military mechanization and make major progress in full military IT application by 2020.
"We should unswervingly pursue full IT application as the goal in achieving military modernization and step up this effort," Hu told more than 2,200 delegates gathered in Beijing's Great Hall of the People for the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.
China should strengthen the development of new- and high-technology weapons and equipment, speed up the complete development of modern logistics, train a new type of high-caliber military personnel in large numbers, intensively carry out military training under computerized conditions, and enhance integrated combat capability based on extensive IT application, Hu said.
Hu said China should implement the military strategy of active defense for the new period, and enhance military strategic guidance as the times so require.
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