Military Civil Fusion in China
Maj Gen P K Mallick, VSM (Retd)
August 1 , 2022
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“We must accelerate the formation of a full-element, multi-domain, and high-return military-civ
development pattern, and gradually build up China’s unified military-civil system of strategies and strateg
Xi Jinping, speaking to the Central Commission for Military-Civil Fusion Development, June 20, 2017.
Introduction
Military-Civil Fusion (MCF) is an aggressive national strategy of the Chinese Communist Party (C
pursues its MCF Development Strategy to fuse its security, economic and social development strateg
integrated national strategic system and capabilities. The Party’s leaders see MCF as a vital element of th
China to become a “great modern socialist country” which includes developing a “world-class” most
advanced military and becoming a world leader in science and technology (S&T). To achieve this, MCF
seamless flow of knowledge, technology, resources, materials and talent back and forth between the m
industrial sectors and academia. Its objectives are to develop and acquire advanced dual-use technolo
purposes and deepen reform of the national defense science and technology industries to strengthen a
instruments of national power. The CCP is executing this strategy through its own research and developm
acquiring the world’s cutting-edge technologies, including theft.
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