Modernization Doctrine

Pilot Program for Socialized Regional Intensive Logistical Support for the Military Advances Steadily

军队区域集约生活保障社会化试点稳步推进

PLA Daily (解放军报) 27 May 2026

Summary

The CMC Logistical Support Department's pilot program for 区域集约生活保障社会化 (socialized regional intensive life support), led by the Guilin Joint Logistical Support Center and covering troops garrisoned in Guangxi, has produced initial results including consolidated procurement contracts for supermarkets, EV charging stations, and express delivery across three tiered support zones, each served by a single supplier radiating from a key garrison city. The program documents the PLA's ongoing effort to replace garrison-by-garrison, unit-by-unit contracting with a cross-service, cross-organizational (跨军种、跨建制) civilian-integrated model — a structural problem the military has acknowledged for years but struggled to standardize. What remains unknown is which specific units are covered, the total contract value, and whether the Guangxi pilot is being evaluated for extension to other theater commands or joint logistical support centers.

Translation

Pilot Program for Socialized Regional Intensive Logistical Support for the Military Advances Steadily

PLA Daily report by Hu Xuliang and correspondent Sun Xingwei: Recently, this reporter learned from relevant departments of the Central Military Commission Logistical Support Department that the pilot program for socialized regional intensive life support (区域集约生活保障社会化) for the military has achieved initial results, with increased discount benefits for supermarket, electric vehicle charging station, and express delivery and mailing services for supported units.

Since last year, relevant departments of the Central Military Commission Logistical Support Department have organized troops stationed in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region to carry out a centralized procurement support pilot for socialized support projects. The pilot is led by the Guilin Joint Logistical Support Center and organized and implemented in coordination with relevant departments of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. It adopts an approach of "unified construction of operating mechanisms, unified standards and norms, coordinated integration of support resources, consolidated platform support, and unified oversight and management," exploring a new model of regional intensive cross-service, cross-organizational, and civil-military integrated support (跨军种、跨建制、跨军地保障), and driving the transformation of socialized garrison life support from dispersed and fragmented to intensive and scaled, from uneven and differential to high-quality and balanced, and from traditional and extensive to technology-enabled.

The pilot uses model innovation to drive support upgrades. Centered on the goals and requirements of regional intensive support, it systematically builds a regional support management framework through innovative procurement strategies, optimized support layouts, and improved competition mechanisms; implements a "price-set, quality-selected" (定价择优) procurement strategy; and designs tiered pricing mechanisms by category to drive the unification of service quality and efficiency.

The pilot innovatively builds a "large-unit-led, small-unit-linked" (以大带小) network model, comprehensively evaluating the support capacity of winning bidder enterprises based on project scale and administrative district divisions. Property management, cafeteria labor services, and supermarkets are divided into three support zones, each covered by a single supplier; each zone is centered on a key garrison city and radiates outward to support surrounding small and medium-sized cities, integrating the needs of garrisoned officers and soldiers to form an intensive support structure and leverage the advantages of centralized coordination at scale.

The pilot coordinates and integrates military and civilian forces, focusing on socialized life support projects within garrisons. It establishes supplier evaluation and assessment files and dynamically tracks the opinions and demands of officers and soldiers. It establishes a "three-review, three-random" (三审三随机) mechanism covering procurement needs review, qualification review, and process and outcome review, as well as random selection of experts, random selection of review personnel, and random designation of support zones, to strengthen oversight and review. At the same time, it employs modern information technology to build platforms for military-civilian interface, supply-demand interface, and coordinated linkage, systematically standardizing the processes for project admission, centralized procurement, oversight, and exit.

Original Chinese

军队区域集约生活保障社会化试点稳步推进解放军报讯胡旭亮、记者孙兴维报道：近日，记者在中央军委后勤保障部有关部门了解到，军队区域集约生活保障社会化试点取得初步成果，被保障部队超市、充电桩、快递邮寄等服务优惠力度增大。去年以来，中央军委后勤保障部有关部门组织驻广西壮族自治区部队，开展保障社会化项目集中采购保障试点。试点由桂林联勤保障中心牵头，会同广西壮族自治区有关部门组织实施，采取“统建运行机制、统一标准规范、统筹保障资源、统合平台支撑、统抓监督管理”方式，探索区域集约跨军种、跨建制、跨军地保障新模式，推动营区生活保障社会化由各自分散向集约规模转变、由差异不均向优质均衡转变、由传统粗放向科技赋能转变。试点以模式创新驱动保障升级，围绕区域集约保障目标要求，通过创新采购策略、优化保障布局、健全竞争机制，系统构建区域保障管理体系；实施“定价择优”采购策略，分类设计定价机制，推动服务质量与效益相统一。试点创新构建“以大带小”组网模式，依据项目规模和行政区域划分，综合评估中标企业保障能力。将物业、食堂劳务、超市划分为3个保障区域，各由一家供应商保障；每个区域以重点驻军城市为中心，辐射保障周边中小城市，整合驻军官兵需求，形成集约化保障格局，发挥集中统筹规模优势。试点统筹整合军地力量，聚焦营区生活保障社会化项目，建立供应商考评档案，动态掌握官兵意见诉求；建立采购需求审查、资质审查、过程结果审查，以及专家随机抽、复核人员随机选、保障区域随机定的“三审三随机”机制，加强监管审查。同时，运用现代信息技术手段，搭建军地对接、供需对接、联动对接平台，系统规范项目准入、集采、监管、退出流程。