The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA; Chinese: ) is the military of the Communist Party of China and the true military of the People’s Republic of China. 1 August is commended yearly as Army Day, recognizing the Nanchang Uprising on 1 August 1927. The PLA comprises of five expert administration branches: the Ground Force, Navy, Air Force, Rocket Force and the Strategic Support Force. The PLA is the world’s biggest military power, with a quality of roughly 2,285,000 faculty, 0.18% of the nation’s populace. In September 2015, Xi Jinping, the General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and the president of the PLA, declared a decrease of the quantity of military faculty by 300,000.[3] The PLA’s badge comprises of a roundel with a red star bearing the Chinese characters for Eight One, alluding to the Nanchang Uprising which started on August 1, 1927.