Chinese President and Chairman of the Central Military Commision Xi Jinping signed the Central Military
Commission's Order No. 1 of 2022 which is a Training and Mobilisation order requiring the entire Army "to
comprehensively promote the transformation and upgrading of military training, and to train elite soldiers
who can fight well." It said the elite soldiers must be trained and toughened during the winters. The PLA
Daily reported that PLA units like a Combined Brigade of the 82nd Group Army, a new Destroyer
Detachment of the PLA Navy in the Southern Theatre Command and a fighter jet from a Brigade of the Air
Force Aviation Corps in the Western Theater Command, a Regiment of the Joint Logistics Support Force, a
Brigade of the PLA Strategic Support Force in Xinjiang, a Missile Brigade of the PLA Rocket Force in the
mountains, and an Armed Police Guangdong Corps, all commenced training on January 4 in compliance
with the mobilization order. The article said "our army should be based on today's war, make training content
consistent with combat tasks, condition setting and battlefield environment, and training standards and
combat requirements". It emphasised knowing your enemy and exhorted "Keep an eye on your opponent.
Who is the opponent determines the training direction. If you don't know your opponent, how can you counter
it? The study of combat opponents, especially strong enemies, is not only a matter of combat departments,
but each department, field and level should have its own research tasks. "In order to use troops, you must
first observe the enemy's situation; if you are a victorious family, you must first understand the enemy's
situation." Only by studying the enemy's situation, the opponent, and the battlefield more, and knowing
ourselves and the enemy, can we formulate effective strategies to deal with the enemy, and practice can lead
to good combat. 's elite troops"
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