China's military forces to be trained for informationized warfare

China continues it's rapid modernization of it's military.

BEIJING, March 5 (Xinhua) - China will transform its military training based on mechanized warfare to that based on informationized warfare, according to a government work report delivered by Premier Wen Jiabao at a parliament session Thursday.

"In the coming year, we need to make our army more revolutionary, modern and standardized," reads the report delivered at the Second Session of the 11th National People's Congress (NPC), or the parliament.

China "will effectively transform our military training based on mechanized warfare to military training for warfare under conditions of greater IT application", the report says.

China will continue to enhance the army's ability to respond to multiple security threats and accomplish a diverse array of military tasks.

Wen also said China will modernize weapons, equipment and logistics support across the board this year. "We will improve defense-related research, the weapons and equipment production system," he said.