President Hu Jintao said in Beijing on Saturday that the nation must maintain a coordinated development of national defense and economy.

　　This will help to ensure a favorable security environment for the nation's modernization, he said.

　　On the basis of economic development, China must make efforts to push forward the construction of national defense, Hu, also general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, said.

　　Hu made the remarks when presiding over a group study focusing on how to coordinate military and economic development. Members of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee participated in the study.

　　Hu said the current international situation in general favors China's goal of building a "xiaokang," or relatively well-off, society.

　　"We should hold high the banner of peace, development and cooperation, adhere to the independent foreign policy of peace, unswervingly persist in the way of peace development, and unswervingly safeguard world peace and promote common development, " he said.

　　"At the same time, we should put national sovereignty and security first, resolutely safeguard the fundamental interest of the country, resolutely safeguard national sovereignty and territorial integrity," he said.

　　He urged party committees and governments at various levels to support the reform and development in the field of national defense, further improve the construction of the reserve forces of national defense, establish a prompt and efficient mobilization system, and further improve the construction of the national defense-related legal system.

　　Hu also extended greetings to all soldiers and officers of the People's Liberation Army as well as the armed police, as the 77th founding anniversary of the PLA, which falls on August 1, nears.

　　Regulations on guaranteeing armament supplies for the combined arms unit of the Chinese People 's Liberation Army have come into force recently, according to an order signed by Jiang Zemin, chairman of the Central Military Commission.

　　In eight chapters and 212 items, the regulations spell out guidelines and procedures to guarantee the armament supply, saying that there will be different supply methods for different fighting conditions.

　　The regulations said that the guarantee of arms logistics for the combined arms unit is a component part of the unit's battle, which is of great importance to improving its fighting capabilities.

　　(Xinhua)