Analysis of the main components of the physical training system of the People’s Liberation Army of China

Abstract

This article shows that in the armed forces of the People's Republic of China, the general training of military personnel includes various types of sports games and exercises for general development, as well as elements of various types of martial arts. Hand-to-hand combat plays a special role in the system of combat, physical and psychological training of the military personnel of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA). Reforming the PLA of the People’s Republic of China is accompanied by painstaking and hard work, which sometimes reaches the point of fanaticism, physical and mental hardening of military personnel. And precisely, hand-to-hand combat, is considered by the command of the PLA as one of the effective approaches to such hardening. The provisions of the tactics of modern combined arms warfire, a part of which is the tactics of close combat and direct hand-to-hand combat as its component, is the starting point for determining the general and special tasks of hand-to-hand training. In addition, it is the final point for checking the effectiveness of the functioning of this system through the performance of a wide range of combat tasks in the conditions of various field exercises. At the end of each academic year, the General Staff of the PLA of China conducts a random inspection of personnel according to the ‘General Regulations’. Physical standards in the the PLA are developed in accordance with the ‘Military Training Manual of the the PLA’ and are intended to standardize the physical training of military personnel, increase the physical skills and combat capacity of personnel.