The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

20. PLA officer salaries were on average 20 percent higher
than comparable government officials prior to 1994. This was
slowly reversed and reached its greatest disparity in 2007, when
the average PLA monthly salary was RMB 1,450 and comparable
officials’ salaries was RMB 5,100 per month. From 2007 to 2009,
the PLA twice saw a dramatically increase in salary, now relatively
at par with comparable government officials. See blog.newssc.
org/u/10549/archives/2009/79412.html. Another example is the raise
in the percentage of personal expenditure of the budget, including
salary, from 31.8 percent in 2002 to 33.7 percent in 2007. In
RMB terms, this meant an increase from RMB 54 billion in 2002 to
RMB 120 billion in 2007. These changes can be found comparing
the National Defense White Paper published from 2003 to 2008.
21. Nuclear, Aerospace, Aviation, Ordnance, and Shipping.
In 2002, a third, the China Electronic Technology Group Corporation,
was established as the 11th.
22. For GAD Satellite Application Expert Group, see Xu Jianmin
(徐建民), “卫星应用现状与发展” (“Current Application and
Development of Satellite”), Beijing, China: Zhongguo Keji Chubanshe,
2001. For discussion of Precision Guidance Expert Group,
also see Stokes “China’s Evolving Conventional Strategic Strike
Capability,” p. 8.
23. Foreign military technology transfer is covered in many
works and will not be covered in detail here. For example, “China,
Russia: An Evolving Defense Relationship,” Stratfor Global Intelligence,
March 31, 2008. It is also tracked by SIPRI in their annual
report “Armaments, Disarmament and International Security,”
available from www.sipri.org/yearbook/2008/files/SIPRIYB08AnC.
pdf.
24. Except the management of nuclear industry, which will go
to the National Energy Commission.
25. “Stipulations for Major Internal organizations and Staffing
Requirements of Ministry of Industry and Information Technology
of the People’s Republic of China,” State Council Issuance,
No. 72, July 17, 2008, available from www.miit.gov.cn.
26. Wang Hongwei (王宏伟), “政府机构改革推进国防科技工
业的“两个融合” (“Government Organizational Reform: Pushing
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