Reforms can ensure PLA better fulfills all its duties

On the 90th anniversary of the People's Liberation Army on Tuesday, President Xi Jinping delivered a speech on its historical contributions, development and the necessity of further reform.

What the PLA has accomplished over the past 90 years can be boiled down to its indispensability to the founding of the People's Republic of China, the irreplaceable role it has played in guaranteeing a peaceful environment for the republic's economic development and social progress and the contributions it has made to maintaining world peace.

Without a strong military, it would have been unimaginable for China to achieve what it has and make the contributions it has to the overall development of the global economy.