Mobilization law for defense meets key test
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February 27, 2010, Saturday
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CHINA'S top legislature passed the National Defense Mobilization Law yesterday after three readings, setting down rules on how and when the military should be mobilized in times of war or emergency.
The law was approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, ahead of the full body's annual meeting next week.
The law will take effect on July 1.
The bill is "very necessary to respond to various kinds of threats of national defense and security," Sun Zhenping, deputy head of the national law office in the NPC Standing Committee's legal affairs committee, told a news conference in Beijing.
"Presently, our national defence and security situation is generally stable. But traditional and non-traditional threats to security still exist," Sun said. "We must be alert to the dangers in times of peace."
Disaster relief
Sun stressed the newly adopted law also considers the needs for handling emergencies using the resources and manpower that the law allows for, a practice already proved effective in the country's disaster relief in the past years.
The country will set up a system for managing strategic resources reserves and transfers in line with the needs of national defense mobilization, according to the law.
The country should ensure storage of military articles including facilities, materials and special production devices designed for military use according to the demand of military orders and equipment in wartime, it says.
Chinese enterprises and public entities that develop and manufacture products for national defense should receive subsidies and preferential treatment, the law says.
The law stipulates that male citizens aged between 18 and 60 and females between 18 and 55, except for some special cases, should provide service for national defense, including giving support to military operations during wartime, engaging in prevention against war-related disasters as well as related relief tasks, and helping to maintain social order.
Mobilization
In order to successfully enforce wartime mobilization, special measures could be taken to supervise and control key industries and areas, according to the law.
The law empowers the State Council, or Cabinet, and the Central Military Commission to mobilize the civilian sector in the event of war or "threats to national sovereignty, unification, territorial integrity and security."
"All citizens and organizations must accept the requisition of civilian resources according to the law in times of defense mobilization," the law says.
The government can "exercise oversight and administration of finance, transport, post and telecommunications, news media," and more, under the law.
A debate over how to define "mobilization" had taken place during the drafting of the law, Sun said. The law passed with one vote against and one abstention.
The law was approved by the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, China's legislature, ahead of the full body's annual meeting next week.
The law will take effect on July 1.
The bill is "very necessary to respond to various kinds of threats of national defense and security," Sun Zhenping, deputy head of the national law office in the NPC Standing Committee's legal affairs committee, told a news conference in Beijing.
"Presently, our national defence and security situation is generally stable. But traditional and non-traditional threats to security still exist," Sun said. "We must be alert to the dangers in times of peace."
Disaster relief
Sun stressed the newly adopted law also considers the needs for handling emergencies using the resources and manpower that the law allows for, a practice already proved effective in the country's disaster relief in the past years.
The country will set up a system for managing strategic resources reserves and transfers in line with the needs of national defense mobilization, according to the law.
The country should ensure storage of military articles including facilities, materials and special production devices designed for military use according to the demand of military orders and equipment in wartime, it says.
Chinese enterprises and public entities that develop and manufacture products for national defense should receive subsidies and preferential treatment, the law says.
The law stipulates that male citizens aged between 18 and 60 and females between 18 and 55, except for some special cases, should provide service for national defense, including giving support to military operations during wartime, engaging in prevention against war-related disasters as well as related relief tasks, and helping to maintain social order.
Mobilization
In order to successfully enforce wartime mobilization, special measures could be taken to supervise and control key industries and areas, according to the law.
The law empowers the State Council, or Cabinet, and the Central Military Commission to mobilize the civilian sector in the event of war or "threats to national sovereignty, unification, territorial integrity and security."
"All citizens and organizations must accept the requisition of civilian resources according to the law in times of defense mobilization," the law says.
The government can "exercise oversight and administration of finance, transport, post and telecommunications, news media," and more, under the law.
A debate over how to define "mobilization" had taken place during the drafting of the law, Sun said. The law passed with one vote against and one abstention.
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