【明報專訊】TOMORROW (August 1) is the 90th anniversary of the foundation of the People's Liberation Army. Having developed for years, China, whose military capabilities have in recent years grown tremendously, is now among the world's military powers. The parade yesterday saw in the Zhurihe base (in Inner Mongolia) showcased what military reform had resulted in over the past two years. In the speech he made there, President Xi Jinping, who is concurrently chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), emphasised "establishing the military politically, strengthening the military through reform, building the military up with technology, running the military in accordance with the law". What has drawn the most attention is the fact that "building the military up with technology" has for the first time been put before "running the military in accordance with the law", and one of the important signs of "building the military up with technology" is the upgrading of the development of military-civil (MC) integration to the level of national strategies.