【英文】美国国防部报告：中国军力报告：2030年将有千枚核弹（192页）

英文研究报告 2021年11月23日 06:27 管理员

The military’s highest decision-making body, the CMC, is technically a department of the CCP Central Committee. The CMC Chairman is a civilian, usually serving concurrently as the General Secretary of the CCP and President of China. Following the 19th Party Congress, the CMC consists of two vice chairs, the chiefs of the Joint Staff and Political Work Departments, the head of the Discipline Inspection Commission, and the Minister of National Defense. Elevating the Secretary of the Discipline Inspection Commission to a CMC member reflects Xi’s goals of combating graft and reinforcing PLA loyalty to the CCP. Furthermore, removing the service chiefs from the CMC while granting theater commanders operational oversight over all conventional forces within their respective regions highlights the PLA’s focus on expanding joint operations capabilities.

Chairman Xi Jinping’s appointment as Party General Secretary and CMC Chairman in 2012 and his selection as President in the spring of 2013 represented the first simultaneous transfer of all three of the PRC’s top positions to an incoming leader in recent decades. Xi was reappointed to his Party positions at the 19th Party Congress and was reappointed President in spring 2018 at the NPC. The same meeting eroded previous CCP norms of succession and also granted approval to remove presidential term limits, potentially allowing Xi to remain President for a third term. In 2016, Xi was announced as the commander-in-chief of the CMC’s Joint Operations Command Center (JOCC) and was named “core” leader of the CCP Central Committee.

Prior to becoming CMC Chairman, Xi served as the CMC’s only civilian Vice Chairman under Hu Jintao. Xi’s father was an important military figure during China’s communist revolution and was a Politburo member in the 1980s. Xi Jinping served as an aide to a defense minister early in his career and had regular interactions with the PLA as a provincial Party official.