{"id":11880,"date":"2021-01-22T22:00:09","date_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:00:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118636\/china-boost-pay-pla-forces-after-years-sweeping-reforms"},"modified":"2021-01-22T22:00:09","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T22:00:09","slug":"china-to-boost-pay-for-pla-forces-after-years-of-sweeping-reforms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/2021\/01\/22\/china-to-boost-pay-for-pla-forces-after-years-of-sweeping-reforms\/","title":{"rendered":"China to boost pay for PLA forces after years of sweeping reforms"},"content":{"rendered":"China\u2019s servicemen and women will get a significant pay rise later this year, according to three independent sources close to the world\u2019s largest military force.The 40 per cent increase comes hard on the heels of a number of sweeping reforms intended to transform the bloated People\u2019s Liberation Army into a more modern, nimble fighting force. The pay boost aims to attract and retain talent, while also encouraging promising young officers to have faith in the ongoing changes.Xi tells top brass to\u2026\n<p class=\"syndicated-attribution\">This post was originally published on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/military\/article\/3118636\/china-boost-pay-pla-forces-after-years-sweeping-reforms\">South China Morning Post<\/a>. <\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China\u2019s servicemen and women will get a significant pay rise later this year, according to three independent sources close to the world\u2019s largest military force.The 40 per cent increase comes hard on the heels of a number of sweeping reforms intended t&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":918,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/918"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11880"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11881,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11880\/revisions\/11881"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/radiofree.asia\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}