According to China News, on November 22, 2011, the China’s People’s Liberation Army (PLA) established a Strategic Planning Department.
Under the General Staff Headquarters, the newly founded PLA Strategic Planning Department’s main functions include studying critical strategic issues, drafting plans and reform proposals for the PLA’s development, submitting suggestions on the allocation of the PLA’s strategic resources and overall management, coordinating cross-headquarters and cross-field issues, and examining and evaluating the implementation of plans for the PLA’s development.
Source: China News Service, November 22, 2011
http://www.chinanews.com/gn/2011/11-22/3479037.shtml