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China seeks private sector help to streamline bloated army

Wang Zegang makes mining machinery for the coal industry at his factory in Shandong province. But by next year he plans to branch out into a new business: making jets for China’s air force.

The way he views it, the more of his products that get shot down, the better. The sole job of “Blue Fox” target drones — for which his factory will make jet thrusters — is to get blown out of the sky during aerial weapons tests.

Thanks to sweeping reforms, private sector entrepreneurs such as Mr Wang are now able to compete in tenders to sell high-tech aviation to the People’s Liberation Army.

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