Chinese army sets up team to supervise training

China's armed forces have set up a leading team to direct work on military training to improve combat capabilities, the flagship newspaper of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) reported on Thursday.

The team is comprised of a general office and two supervisory groups on training and education, the PLA Daily cited a circular issued by the PLA General Staff Headquarters as saying.

Military area commands, different arms of the services and armed police forces will also have to set up teams based on the headquarter model.

The leading team will supervise responsibilities, rules, quality and work styles within military training, according to the newspaper.

Supervision could be in the form of hearing reports, meetings and lessons, organizing seminars, talking with individuals, surveys, inspections or training assessments, the article said.

The supervision model has been introduced in response to a guidance on raising the army's actual combat standards by improving the level of military training. The guidance was issued by the Central Military Commission last month.

It listed tasks that needed to be carried out to improve standards, and stressed that problems in military training should be addressed through mechanisms and systems with innovative ideas and measures.