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PLA gets transparent shopping list
By Guo Nei (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-07-19 05:59

The People's Liberation Army (PLA) yesterday claimed to have saved 1.8 billion yuan (US$218 million) in the past three and a half years as increased transparency granted outsiders a rare glimpse of the workings of the Chinese military.

Local citizens bid a farewell to the leaving troops who guarded the flood-stricken Wuzhou City for weeks alongside the Xijiang River. The photo was taken on June 26, 2005. [newsphoto/file]
PLA General Logistics Department sources said the army had spent more than 12 billion yuan (US$1.46 billion) on basic supplies last year, a 64 per cent increase over 2003.

Reform started in November 2001, with procurement transparency aimed at making the army run more efficiently, the PLA Daily, the mouthpiece of the Chinese army, reported yesterday.

Rules to better regulate material procurement have also been introduced, the report quoted an unidentified officer from the Quartermaster, Materials and Petro-Oil and Lubricants Department of the General Logistics Department as saying. The rules also cover the public bidding process for procurement.

According to General Logistics Department regulations, all PLA material procurement information, except that involving military and commercial secrets, must be made public.
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