海军按照近海防御的战略要求，注重提高综合作战力量现代化水平，增强战略威慑与反击能力，发展远海合作与应对非传统安全威胁能力。突出正规系统的基础训练，加强复杂电磁环境下实战化训练，作战能力进一步提高。组织舰艇编队远海训练，建立非战争军事行动训练模式。按计划补充部分新型潜艇、护卫舰、飞机和大型保障舰船。加强综合保障基地建设，基本形成与兵力部署相一致、与武器装备发展相协调的岸基保障体系。加快海上后勤保障平台建设，大型万吨级制式医院船以及救护艇、救护直升机装备部队，进一步提高了海上保障能力。探索海上长时间执行任务的后勤保障方法。海军下辖北海、东海和南海3个舰队，舰队下辖舰队航空兵、保障基地、舰艇支队、水警区、航空兵师和陆战旅等部队。

    空军按照攻防兼备的战略要求，有计划推进现代化转型建设。充实完善空军发展战略和人才发展战略，深化信息化条件下空军作战和转型问题研究。加强以空中进攻、防空反导、战略投送为重点的作战力量体系建设，健全完善领导指挥体系，建立信息化、网络化、基地化支援保障体系。深入开展复杂电磁环境下体系对抗训练，进行一系列带有战术背景的演习演练和战役集训。加强以首都为中心、边境沿海一线为重点的日常防空战备工作，组织完成国家重大活动空中安保及抢险救灾、国际救援、应急空运等非战争军事行动任务。陆续装备预警机、第三代作战飞机等先进武器装备。空军下辖沈阳、北京、兰州、济南、南京、广州、成都7个军区空军和1个空降兵军。军区空军下辖航空兵师、地空导弹师(旅、团)、高炮旅(团)、雷达旅(团)、电子对抗团(营)等，航空兵师下辖航空兵团和驻地场站。

In line with the requirements of offshore defense strategy, the PLA Navy (PLAN) endeavors to accelerate the modernization of its integrated combat forces, enhances its capabilities in strategic deterrence and counterattack, and develops its capabilities in conducting operations in distant waters and in countering non-traditional security threats. It seeks to further improve its combat capabilities through regularized and systematic basic training and actual combat training in complex electromagnetic environments. By organizing naval vessels for drills in distant waters, it develops training models for MOOTW missions. New types of submarines, frigates, aircraft and large support vessels have been deployed as planned. The PLAN enhances the construction of composite support bases so as to build a shore-based support system which matches the deployment of forces and the development of weaponry and equipment. The Navy has accelerated the building of surface logistical platforms by deploying ambulance boats and helicopters, and a standard 10,000 DWT hospital ship, and is working to further improve its surface support capabilities. The Navy explores new methods of logistics support for sustaining long-time maritime missions. There are three fleets under the Navy, namely, the Beihai Fleet, the Donghai Fleet and the Nanhai Fleet, each of which has under its command fleet aviation, support bases, flotillas, maritime garrison commands, aviation divisions and marine brigades.

To satisfy the strategic requirements of conducting both offensive and defensive operations, the modernization and transformation of the PLA Air Force (PLAAF) follows a carefully-structured plan. It strengthens and improves the PLAAF development and personnel development strategies, and enhances its research into the operation and transformation of air forces in conditions of informationization. The PLAAF is working to ensure the development of a combat force structure that focuses on air strikes, air and missile defense, and strategic projection, to improve its leadership and command system and build up an informationized, networked base support system. It conducts training on confrontation between systems in complex electromagnetic environments, and carries out maneuvers, drills and operational assembly training in different tactical contexts. The PLAAF strengthens routine combat readiness of air defenses, taking the defense of the capital as the center and the defense of coastal and border areas as the key. It has carried out MOOTWs, such as air security for major national events, emergency rescue and disaster relief, international rescue, and emergency airlift. It has gradually deployed airborne early warning and control aircraft, third-generation combat aircraft, and other advanced weaponry and equipment. The PLAAF has under it an air command in each of the seven military area commands of Shenyang, Beijing, Lanzhou, Jinan, Nanjing, Guangzhou and Chengdu. It also has under its command an airborne corps. Under each air command at military area level are aviation divisions, ground-to-air missile divisions (brigades and regiments), anti-aircraft artillery brigades (regiments), radar brigades (regiments), electronic countermeasures (ECM) regiments (battalions), and other units. An aviation division has under its command aviation regiments and related stations.