In the address at the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, stressed that China would adapt to the trend of a new global military revolution and to national security needs, upgrade its military capabilities, and see that by the year 2020 mechanization has been basically achieved, IT application has come a long way, and strategic capabilities have seen a big improvement. China would also see that by 2035, the modernization of national defense and armed forces is basically completed, and that by the mid-21st century, the people's armed forces have been fully transformed into world-class forces.
