Talk:ISAF Navy/@comment-7918067-20130711121036

I am here to talk about the history of the PLAN, or the people's liberation army navy.

Some people don't get why everything millitary in china starts with army, well, people's liberation army was formed after WWII, back then China was so poor they never even dreamed of having an air force or navy, so it was called the army instead of armed forces.

In the late 1970s to the early 1980s, Chinese leader De Xiaoping came to power after Mao zedong's death, he made three policies that changed china from a poor rural craphole to a global powerhouse.

1: encouraged they development of small businesses and cooperations 2:Allowed trade linked to be established to the west, increasing export and import rates. 3: minimize millitary personnels and replace quantity with quality.

The last change has perhaps saved china, it was sad that nearly one millions veterans were fired to reduce the size of the army, but chinese industries, especially private one (manufactoring of any weapons by a personal owned factory or shipyard is illegal before Mao died) fueled the forces with tanks planes and automatic rifles, soviet destroyers were bought with cheap prices and the size of the navy exploded.