新中国成立以后,我军已进行过九次重大精简整编。进入新世纪,随着现代科技特别是信息技术的发展,战争形态正在由机械化战争向信息化战争转变,世界新军事变革在更大范围和更深层次上加速发展,国际军事领域的竞争更加激烈。党中央、中央军委审时度势,决定在“九五”期间裁军五十万的基础上,二○○五年前再裁军二十万。 After the founding of new China, our army has conducted nine major streamlining and reorganization. In the new century, with the development of modern science and technology, especially the information technology, the forms of war are shifting from mechanized war to informatized war, the new military revolution in the world accelerates on a larger scale and at a deeper level, and the competition in the international military field is even more fierce. The Central Party Committee and the Central Military Commission have decided on the situation and decided to disarmament another 200,000 by 2005 on the basis of a disarmament of 500,000 during the Ninth Five-Year Plan.