The focus of training is different. The army is now a synthetic army, with many specialized arms, while the armed police is relatively simple. The army is a large-scale combat arm, equipped with heavy equipment, and mainly belongs to the National Defence Force. Armed police are mainly responsible for domestic security and handling sudden mass incidents. The army is led by the general command, not by the local government. The Armed Police Force is led by the Armed Police Headquarters and the province where it is located. The state and province are responsible for the military funds.

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China People's Liberation Army was born in 1927. In wartime, it is mainly infantry, with a small number of artillery, engineers, signal soldiers, tank soldiers and chemical defense soldiers. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), it gradually developed from infantry to synthetic services, including artillery, armored force, engineering corps, signal corps, anti-chemical corps, electronic countermeasures force, army aviation and other combat arms, combat support arms and professional forces.

Since the 1980s, artillery, armored forces, engineers and chemical defense forces have accounted for more than two thirds of the army's establishment. The leading body of the PLA Army is responsible for the management of the PLA Army, with its first commander Li Zuocheng and political commissar Liu Lei.

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