ABSTRACT
This conclusion presents some closing thoughts discussed in the preceding chapters of this book. The book shows China's military procurement in the early twenty-first century. The heads of the defense industries exploited the prestige enjoyed by strategic weapons which radiated over the country as a whole, and matched the Chinese leaders' aspirations to bestow on their country the status of a great power to win their support for their major projects. In the early 1990s, as part of the struggle to import platforms, the army argues that import of advanced technologies would lay the foundations for self-reliance, while those opposed to military imports cited Mao's warning against blindly following foreign influences. Accordingly, the efficiency of military procurement is measured here by its ability to provide, in a given timeframe, weapons of adequate quantity, quality, and maintenance to enable the various military forces to accomplish their missions.
