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

Phase Three:
• Under the joint leadership of the GLD, and according
to the strategic direction and regional
deployments, establish within the country several
regional war zone logistics departments
that are subordinate to the GLD and responsible
for logistics in the war zone and within
every war zone establish subordinate war zone
logistics department sub-departments.
Joint Logistics Supply Distribution after 2000.
An examination of supply and material distribution
after the 2000 reforms incorporated MR Joint Logistics
departments and sub-departments provided
in Figure 1 59 illustrates how the 2000 reforms affected
joint logistics. The chart shows three distinct distribution
channels for material flow down to using units.
One channel is the distribution of common use material
through the MR Joint Logistics Material and Fuel
Department, through subordinate (sub) departments
to material supply stations and, finally, to using units.
The center distribution channel depicts material flow
for service-specific items through the military region’s
service logistics departments and supply stations to
using units. The third channel on the right side of the
chart depicts the flow of “comprehensively planned
material” (统等物流) through the GLD’s Military Material
Planning Bureau and material storage and delivery
stations. Critical commodities, such as rice, are
supplied by the GLD through national procurement
to military regions that do not have sufficient production
capacity to support military needs, such as areas
of Qinghai Province, the Xizang Autonomous Region
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