China's Auxiliary Forces - PAP and Militia

SinoAmericanCW said:

Then it'd be:

• PLA, active ground forces elements (PLAA, PLANMC, PLAAFAC): 1,035,000
• PLA, reserve ground forces elements: 459,000 (AFAIK ~90% of reserve personnel)
• PAP, active ground forces elements: 460,000 (without the Coast Guard)
• Militia (primary): 6,300,000? (without the Maritime Militia - note the MM figure of 1.7 million is *very* dated)

For a grand total of ~8,254,000 ground forces personnel - albeit the true figure is probably somewhat higher, given that I doubt the MM still has 1.7 million personnel.

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Sorry if my question is ignorant but is the militia an actual fighting force like are they all armed and equipped or are they just non armed civillians in camo just wondering given their massive number

redalert3000 said:

Sorry if my question is ignorant but is the militia an actual fighting force like are they all armed and equipped or are they just non armed civillians in camo just wondering given their massive number

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Militia is not one unit, it's all decentralized and localized. So you have the Fujian militia over there and the Kazakh militia over here and so on. Training and professionalism varies hugely depending on where you are.

Also 8 million is not an accurate figure. None of those figures are accurate, as I said previously.