中國政府4月16日發表《中國武裝力量的多樣化運用》白皮書，強調走和平發展道路，是中國堅定不移的國家意志和戰略抉擇。

The document, the eighth of its kind issued by the Chinese government since 1998, says China advocates a new security concept featuring mutual trust, mutual benefit, equality and coordination, and pursues comprehensive security, common security and cooperative security.

這是自1998年以來中國政府發表的第八部國防白皮書。白皮書指出，中國倡導互信、互利、平等、協作的新安全觀，尋求實現綜合安全、共同安全、合作安全。

The paper warns that China still faces multiple and complicated security threats and challenges. The issues of subsistence and development security and traditional and non-traditional threats to security are interwoven, the document says. Therefore China has an arduous task to safeguard its national unification, territorial integrity and development interests.

白皮書指出，中國仍面臨多元復雜的安全威脅和挑戰，生存安全問題和發展安全問題、傳統安全威脅和非傳統安全威脅相互交織，維護國家統一、維護領土完整、維護發展利益的任務艱巨繁重。

In this paper, the People's Liberation Army (PLA) for the first time reveals the actual number of army, navy and air force servicemen, designations of its army combined corps and the main missile lineup.

白皮書首次公布陸海空三軍員額、陸軍集團軍的番號及主要武器型號。

China now has about 850,000 army servicemen in 18 combined corps and additional independent combined operational divisions (brigades), according to the paper.

陸軍機動作戰部隊包括18個集團軍和部分獨立合成作戰師（旅），現有85萬人。

Currently, the PLA Navy has a total strength of 235,000 officers and men, and commands three fleets -- the Beihai Fleet, the Donghai Fleet and the Nanhai Fleet.

海軍現有23.5萬人，下轄北海、東海和南海３個艦隊。

The PLA Air Force now has about 398,000 officers and men and an air command in each of the seven military area commands of Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Chengdu. In addition, it boasts one airborne corps.

空軍現有39.8萬人，下轄沈陽、北京、蘭州、濟南、南京、廣州、成都7個軍區空軍和1個空降兵軍。

The PLA Second Artillery Force is equipped with a series of "Dong Feng” ballistic missiles and “Chang Jian" cruise missiles. It also has under its command missile bases, training bases, specialized support units, academies and research institutions.

第二炮兵下轄導彈基地、訓練基地、專業保障部隊、院校和科研機構等，目前裝備東風系列彈道導彈和長劍巡航導彈。

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（中國日報網英語點津 Helen）

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