BEIJING: China is preparing to open its arms industry to private and foreign investment to take advantage of the private sector's resources to modernise its military, state media said yesterday.
The move will be “historic” as it will open up a tightly-guarded state monopoly to civilian companies to do weapons research and development, the China Daily said in a commentary.
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