Modernization Doctrine

Our Military's Modern Asset Management System Construction Advances Steadily

我军现代资产管理体系建设稳步推进

PLA Daily (解放军报) 19 May 2026

Summary

The CMC Logistic Support Department's Asset Management and Supervision Bureau announced at a professional ethics standards briefing that the PLA has established a closed-loop, full-lifecycle asset management system covering cataloguing, code assignment, real-time data aggregation, and a 'public-property warehouse' mechanism for temporary equipment allocation during exercises. The article documents a persistent PLA logistics problem—fragmented, opaque asset tracking across units and domains—and records the institutional response: a unified information system that makes asset status visible across the force and enables cross-unit equipment sharing without new procurement. The theater command exercise vignette confirms the mechanism is operationally active, not merely administrative, but the article stops short of specifying which theater or units were involved, limiting its value for order-of-battle analysis.

Translation

Taking Stock of Asset Inventories, Connecting Support Chains, Coordinating Cross-Domain Allocation — Our Military's Modern Asset Management System Construction Advances Steadily

PLA Daily report by Wu Dan and reporter Sun Xingwei: Recently, this reporter learned at a professional ethics standards briefing organized by the Asset Management and Supervision Bureau of the Central Military Commission Logistic Support Department that our military has preliminarily established a closed-loop management chain covering the full lifecycle of assets. This is a concrete practice in the field of military asset management and supervision to accelerate the construction of a modern asset management system commensurate with the combat force system, and marks that our military's modern asset management system has taken initial shape.

Military assets are a strategic resource and an important material foundation for national defense and military modernization. In recent years, asset management and supervision departments at all levels throughout the entire military have strengthened refined management (精细管理), precise support (精确保障), and accurate supervision (精准监督) through taking stock of asset inventories, connecting support chains, and coordinating cross-domain allocation, driving asset management to preliminarily achieve the transformation toward a more sound system and mechanism, more standardized management and supervision, and more scientific overall allocation.

The entire military has rolled out full-asset cataloguing and code assignment, marking and labeling, strictly controlling the source gateway of assets, and implementing code-based refined management; has built and applied the military asset management information system, aggregating data on all types of asset resources across the entire military, and has basically achieved full network entry of assets, visible status, and traceable processes; has operated the asset public-property warehouse (公物仓) service support mechanism, adopting a model combining "virtual warehouses and physical warehouses" to provide asset sharing and common-use service support for troop combat readiness training and emergency exercises; and has established a normalized asset exit and revitalization mechanism to maximize the utilization of asset value.

During a joint exercise organized by a certain theater command, multiple units put forward temporary supplementary requirements for camping and cooking materials and equipment. Relying on the asset public-property warehouse service support mechanism, asset management departments queried in real time the materials and equipment held in the warehouse, and through online approval and nearby pickup, delivered them directly from the public-property warehouse to the exercise area. After the exercise concluded, the materials and equipment were inspected, maintained, and returned to storage, with no new procurement costs added throughout the entire process.

"Asset management and supervision departments at all levels throughout the entire military will continuously update management and supervision concepts, optimize information system construction, and improve management and support levels, ensuring that military asset resources are focused toward combat capability building." The responsible official of the relevant department stated that in the next step, they will use digital transformation as the driver, deepen full-cost accounting and full-lifecycle tracking management, and provide solid material support for winning future wars.

Original Chinese

摸清资产底数贯通保障链路跨域统筹调配我军现代资产管理体系建设稳步推进解放军报讯吴丹、记者孙兴维报道：日前，记者从中央军委后勤保障部资产管理监督局组织的职业道德规范宣讲会上获悉，我军已初步构建资产全生命周期闭环管理链路。这是军队资产管理监督领域加快构建与作战力量体系相适应的现代资产管理体系的具体实践，标志着我军现代资产管理体系初具雏形。军队资产是战略性资源，是国防和军队现代化建设的重要物质基础。近年来，全军各级资产管理监督部门通过摸清资产底数、贯通保障链路、跨域统筹调配等方式，加强精细管理、精确保障和精准监督，推动资产管理初步实现体系机制更加健全、管理监督更加规范、统筹调配更加科学的转变。全军推开全资产编目赋码、打码贴签，严把资产源头关口，推行依码精细管理；建设应用军队资产管理信息系统，汇聚全军各类资产资源数据，基本实现资产全部入网、状态可视、过程可溯；运行资产公物仓服务保障机制，采取“虚拟仓+实物仓”相结合的模式，为部队战备训练、应急演练提供资产共享共用服务保障；建立军队资产常态化退出盘活机制，实现资产价值利用最大化。在某战区组织的联合演练中，多支部队提出野营、炊事物资器材的临时增补需求。依托资产公物仓服务保障机制，资产管理部门实时查询仓库中存有的物资器材，通过在线审批、就近领取等方式，将其从公物仓直送演练地域。演练结束，物资器材经检测保养重新入库，整个流程未新增采购费用。 “全军各级资产管理监督部门将持续更新管理监督理念，优化信息系统建设，提升管理保障水平，确保军队资产资源向战斗力建设聚焦。”有关部门负责人表示，下一步，他们将以数字化转型为牵引，深化全成本核算与全寿命追踪管理，为打赢未来战争提供坚实物质支撑。