| dc.description.abstract | Abstract
When China in the time of Mao’s rule, under the principle of the “Combination of Worker and Fighter,” he created the Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army of China. Putting military armament and economical production together, this was the ideas of the Peoples’ Warfare that Mao insisted the most. In the mid-60s after the People’s Republic of China (PRC) possessing nuclear weapons, it came out with two extreme defending strategies; one was the Peoples Warfare and the other, the nuclear deterrence. Before the nuclear possibility is accountable for striking back when under attack, however, the Peoples Warfare is still the main military strategy for the PRC.
In 1980s, the PRC has begun to revise its thinking of the Peoples Warfare, and has brought up a new type of peoples’ warfare under modern conditions. Because of the possession of the ability of second strike, the PRC has also altered its defending strategy. In stead of executing the policy of scorched earth which lured the enemy to go deep into its territory, the PRC has deployed the main units at the advance position in some essence areas and geo-political centers. The thinking is that the PRC not only able to commit the area defense, but also actively to launch an attack before the enemy.
This strategical attempt was revealed entirely when the PRC held a huge military exercise in Jang Jiako on September 1981. It showed that the PRC have the priority of equipping highly sophisticated weapons in the Army, Navy, and Air force. Similarly, the PRC’s has gradually changed its traditionally pure coast defense role. Due to the North, East, and the South Sea Fleets of the PRC constantly increasing its high sea long-distance navigation exercises, obviously the PRC is well preparing to develop an ocean-going navy, and attempt to assume an expanding course in sea power strategy.
After the breaking of the Persian Gulf War, the PRC’s military was deeply shocked and its military affair revolution was thereafter affected. To the greater extent, the military thinking of the PRC’s leaders was facing the formidable lashes, and hence taking high tech as the key for winning a war. To win local war under high-tech conditions in terms of modern technology, therefore, the PRC’s has put their military fighting emphasis on the southeast coast, South Sea, and border of China-India according to its priority. Now, the Navy and the Air force are its military development priority. In the meantime, the seek to upgrade the Army’s overall operational capability; enhance the deterrent force of The Secondary Artillery Force, and build up a rapid response force, in order to cope with the needs of local war under high-tech conditions. | en_US |