Chinese Militia and its state of readiness

officially, militia soldiers train for minimium15 days a year, with NCOs train for 30 days a year. Equipment varies from unit to unit, but all of them seems to hand-me-downs from the PLA. If you can read Chinese, there is in fact a you can look at.

It looks like local governments (county, city etc.), look after the militia instead of military commands. As most offical info after militia are from local gov websites instead of PLA/DoD websites. Here is report after . Apparently, they spent 8 days shooting at air targets with AAA and listen to lectures after "modern warfare". , which is history page about militia activities there. That county has 15,000 militia, and they most play with 40mm rocket artillery, 82mm mortar, 12.7mm AAA and 60mm mortar. So pretty basic infantry stuff.

Another few things that I could think of as tasks for the militia during war time:

1) Basic repairs and conditioning of vehicles, weapons, etc
2) Transportation of ammunition, equipments, medicine, food, etc by ground to frontline units.
3) Repairs and building of the country's extensive infrastructure to support extensive ground campaigns
4) Cook for frontline unit.
5) Recreational units

That is only a few of the things I can think of, anyway will the militia be doing any of those?

Oh, btw, now that we know Chinese militia spend 15 to 30 days a year to train (thanks to luhai), I am wondering do they get call back for training during those days or do they voluntarily clock in for their training?

In singapore after our NSF (national service), we get call back every years for around 14days to train as NSmen (national service men). Do China had this system too? Or as volunteer it is just up to the militia to do the clocking in themselves without any compulsory time slot.

It is always a headache to schedule the NSmen due to the large size when I was serving in my country's army, I can only imagine what it would be like for scheduling manpower the size of China's local militia, plus the country is huge and you couldn't stop someone from travelling to the other states of the country (most probably to work).

prolly depends on where you live, i am pretty damn sure militias in Xinjiang gets way more training than militias in Shanghai. in the end i still trust the reserves more since those are the ones that actually received professional training.

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It looks like local governments (county, city etc.), look after the militia instead of military commands. As most offical info after militia are from local gov websites instead of PLA/DoD websites. Here is report after

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, which is history page about militia activities there. That county has 15,000 militia, and they most play with 40mm rocket artillery, 82mm mortar, 12.7mm AAA and 60mm mortar. So pretty basic infantry stuff.

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Does this mean the local govn'ts actually haves possession of those weapon systems? That's a pretty well-armed local administration... or they are simply leasing the weapons from PLA?

The basic firearms like the second-hand assault rifles and pistols could be handed down from the PLA when they got new toys, but heavier equipment such as AAA and artillery pieces is allocated to the militia from the CMC, I think.

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The basic firearms like the second-hand assault rifles and pistols could be handed down from the PLA when they got new toys, but heavier equipment such as AAA and artillery pieces is allocated to the militia from the CMC, I think.

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Prolly, chinese militia role is similar to US national guard ??? ... any opinion ?

nope. miltia is very diferent from the us national guard

Actually I have this crazy idea on the local militia of China. First of, I do not have an insight to China's annual GDP and the defence budget that she is spending on defence. But I do believe that Local Militia are not included in this defence budget.

In another word, the local militia are funded by different states. Each states had their own GDP and income, and part of this money would go to the local militia. I believe that weapons and ammunition or some sensitive equipments will come from the central command, but the maintanence of these equipments will have to come from the local government and the allowance, food, lodging, etc for these militia when they go to training or operation will come from the local government.

In this way, the militia report to the local government in time of peace and not to the central command. In time of war or any national crisis, they will be pulled in into the military and ensure that the Great Backline is secured while the regulars fight in the front.

So if the militia isn't like the US National Guard was does it do? Are they like a grown-up Boy Scouts?