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(Jennifer’s note: The following is the English translation of a leaked secret audio file of the war mobilization meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Communist Party Committee of China on May 14, 2022. The audio file was released by Lude Media. The Chinese version of the transcript is here. The photos of some of the participants, the links to their bios, and links to the website of some enterprises and labs mentioned in the audio file were found and added by me. The subheadings of the transcript were also added by me to make the reading easier.）

After receiving the national mobilization order and Normal Time to War Defense instructions, the provincial government determined that the Guangdong Provincial Committee immediately hold an expanded meeting of the Standing Committee.

The War Mobilization Meeting was coded as "DY-2022 Event". DY stands for Dong Yuan(动员), which means mobilization. This is the Confidentiality Agreement every participant must sign before they attended the meeting. Provided by Lude Media.

Comrades, we now convene an expanded meeting of the Standing Committee of the Provincial Party Committee, mainly to decide the province's major issues related to the transition to a wartime system.

First of all, Comrade Zhang Hu（张虎） will convey the national mobilization order and the instruction spirit of the State Council Central Military Commission on transferring to the wartime system and put forward a Normal to War transition proposal.

Zhang Hu, member of the Standing Committee of the Guangdong Provincial Party Committee, Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee, Executive Vice Governor of the Provincial Government and Deputy Secretary of the Party Group. Credit: news.qq.com

I will first convey the mobilization order of the People's Republic of China.

The main purpose of the expanded meeting of the Standing Committee is to convey the instructions of the superior order, clarify the intention, study the situation, and clarify the main work and general requirements of the Normal to War transition.

According to the spirit of the instructions from above, combined with the actual situation in our province, it is recommended that in accordance with the principle of a rapid and orderly Normal to War status transition, military planning, and mobilization, we will focus on the following three tasks.

First, the construction of a national defense mobilization command system

Second, the implementation of a wartime work mechanism

Third, wartime control preparation

Next, please discuss and make speeches.

According to principles of being excellent at multiple domains, precise mobilization, and being led by combat concept, based on the mission and tasks of Guangdong, we propose three recommendations.

First, quickly build a joint command system between the military and the civil government.

Second, to coordinate the preparation of strategic victory mobilization.

Focus in the Taiwan Straits Area:

Replenish military sources, ensure forward push, ensure loading, ensure the navigation, and ensure island seizing

Focus in the South China Sea Area:

Complementing blind areas, maintaining rights and interests, supporting transportation, protecting islands and reefs, and controlling sea areas

Accordingly, I believe that we should follow policy ideas and methods that are demand-led, unified, and combined, precisely carry them out, grasp the differences, and do a good job of strategic mobilization and implementation of preparations for a decisive victory

Third, highlight and transform the resource potential of new domains and new systems, to focus on effectively making up for the shortage of troops, and adhere to the scientific and technological mobilization to mobilize the implementation of preparations in a prominent position.

The provincial military regions should work together with relevant industry authorities, to further dig deeper into the transformation, reconnaissance and early warning, network attack and defense, search and rescue, cross-sea delivery, and other resource potentials in new domains and new systems, to ensure that the best resources for the final battle, to ensure that best resources are utilized to ensure a strategic victory.

Proposal to Accomplish the Mission of Securing resources and Ensuring Strategic Victory (corresponding time code on the audio file: 2:37)

Dear Secretary and Deputy Secretary, my opinions are:

Resolutely implement the orders of the Party Central Committee, President Xi, and resolutely accomplish Guangdong’s mission of resolutely ensuring the resources to achieve a strategic and decisive victory.

I’ll make two suggestions.

First, quickly set up a joint military-civilian command party committee

Second, pay a high degree of attention to our own defense, adhere to the bottom line thinking, prepare for a rainy day, defend before the attack, and adhere to whole-process defense. Focus on the Pearl River Delta super-dense cities and important military and livelihood targets in the region. Plan early, coordinate well air defense, target defense, and various preparations for war. Maximumly protect people's lives and properties and maintain the mobilization potential sustainably and to the maximum degree.

I add a suggestion.

In accordance with the idea of protecting the front line and maintaining stability at the same time, we should do well with social prevention and control, strict and tight. We should initiate the joint defense and control mechanism among the party, government, military, police, and civilians, and special measures for wartime control. We should transform the experiences we gained from pandemic prevention and control in previous years into wartime social prevention and control initiatives to ensure that people's production and life are in order, to ensure the general situation of social stability, and to create a favorable environment and conditions for the strategic victory.

Deployment Decision of the Governor and the Secretary of the Provincial Party Committee (corresponding time code on the audio file: 4:06)

After other leaders put forward relevant proposals, the governor put forward relevant requirements, and the provincial party secretary made the deployment decision.

The most urgent and top priority thing is, according to the deployment of the Party Central Committee, in accordance with the requirements of ensuring production, mobilization, and victory, we should ensure scientific coordination, strong and orderly organization of production, conversion, expansion, and stabilization of production.

All levels, all regions, and all departments in the province should quickly adjust the work priority, moving from focusing on economic development to ensuring strategic victory. Following the principle of military and civilians share the same heart, and military products first, we should coordinate well the military and civilian production.

We need to introduce targeted wartime policy measures and guide and support those high-tech and special enterprises that are included in the "potential resources in new domains and new systems" list to convert and expand their production.

We need to use a combination of political, economic, administrative, legal, and other means, to guide and help provincial enterprises, and key private enterprises to retain workers, and ensure stable production.

In the meantime, we should also focus on effectively preventing and resolving the risk of resource disruption and industry disruption, and do more and more to mobilize and counter-mobilize, mobilize within the region and mobilize overseas to ensure the security of the supply of important strategic materials.

Mobilization Focus: Coordinating the Taiwan Strait and South China Sea (Corresponding recording time point: 5:42)

Comrades, the strategic decisive victory is related to the great cause of our national rejuvenation and the future fate of our country. It will also impact the world's strategic pattern. The Normal to War transition is a key move to win the overall war, the decisive battle of our country, and the people's war in the new era. We must do it quickly and well.

First, we need to unify the ideological understanding and strengthen the awareness of transition. We won’t hesitate to start a war, crush Taiwan's independence and strong enemies’ plots, and resolutely defend national sovereignty and territorial integrity. This is the Party Central Committee, General Secretary Xi Jinping’s major strategic decision to coordinate the big pictures of international and domestic affairs, as well as the overall strategic situation of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation. It was made after carefully reviewing the timing and the situations.

We must consciously strengthen the role of Guangdong, with a high level of political judgment, political comprehension, and political implantation ability. We must unify our thought and action according to the decision and deployment of the Party Central Committee and the Central Military Commission. United, we’ll be as solid as a fortress. We must ensure the supplies and the strategic victory. We must ensure that we accomplish our mission, to live up to the trust that is entrusted to us.

Zhou He, major general of People's Liberation Army, commander of the Guangdong Military Region. Image source: Baidu 周河，中国人民解放军少将，现任广东省军区司令员。图片来源：百度

Second, we must unify well the organization and command [system], to ensure a reasonable transition. Just now, comrade Zhou He (周河）and comrade [Wang] Shouxin (王守信), respectively proposed the opening of a joint military-civilian command, the establishment of the command party committee. I agree with both of them. Submit the proposals to the higher party committee for approval according to the provisions.

Wang Shouxin, standing committee member of Guangdong Provincial Committee, political commissar of Guangdong Military Region. Image source: Baidu 王守信，广东省委委员、常

The provincial industry special command posts must resolutely obey the unified command of the joint command, and the various military-civilian departments at all levels should both accomplish their respective duties and work closely together to ensure that the party, government, military, police, and civilians work together with combined forces to win.

Third, we must grasp the overall situation, jointly promote the implementation, and enhance the chance to win the transition. With the overall planning, we must accurately grasp the rhythm, scope, and intensity of the Normal to War State transition. We must fully ensure the needs of the troops, to support front-line operations. At the same time, we must also take into account the lives of the masses, and ensure the stability of the rear [of the battlefield].jo

In terms of mobilization focus, we need to coordinate the two areas of the Taiwan Strait and the South China Sea. We must ensure everything both at sea and on land. We must ensure both traditional and new type forces, as well as resources from both the province and overseas. We must pool all our resources to ensure [the needs] in the Taiwan Strait area.

With organization and implementation, we must coordinate economically developed cities and relatively backward areas, general industry areas, and key industry areas, to ensure efficient and effective transfer to the wartime system.

Fourth, we must unify the wartime management, solid the transition bottom line, to firmly establish bottom-line thinking. Based on the actual situation that we have a large number of migrant workers, and a large number of factories and enterprises, we must strictly prevent the bank run tide, factory evacuation tide, and migrant workers returning home tide.

Based on the actual situation that we have many strategic channels and important targets, we must strictly do a good job to protect our roads and targets. We must strictly prevent the enemy’s strikes and attacks.

Based on the actual situation that we are adjacent to Hong Kong and Macao, and we have a long sea defense line, we must strictly prevent the enemy’s infiltration and destruction. We must prevent [the enemies] from using Hong Kong to create chaos, and then using chaos to disrupt the war, and so on.

In short, we must take multiple measures, and a multi-pronged approach to ensure the stability of the people’s perspective, the stability of social order, and the stability of the rear.

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Command Structure, Operational Decision-making Mechanism, And Four Information And Communication Links (Corresponding recording time point: 9:14)

After the meeting, the Provincial Party Committee General Office issued the minutes of the meeting. It is recommended that all departments follow the deployment of the meeting, immediately open a joint military-civilian command and operational command posts, specifically plan and deploy, and organize the province's Normal to War transition work.

Chiefs, according to the State Council Central Military Commission’s Normal to War transition instructions, and the decision of the provincial party committee standing committee, the province has completed the establishment of the military command structure at all levels as of 18:00 on April 18.

1. The structure of the command. The provincial military-civilian joint command, the South China Sea area command post, and a number of special mobilization command posts have been set up.

The provincial military-civilian joint command is composed of elite personnel from the provincial party committee, the provincial government, the provincial military district, and the provincial national mobilization committee related enterprise units, as well as the armed police Guangdong General Force, the armed police mobile six detachments, sea defense 311 brigade. It was set up for the provincial military district combat command center, in due course will transfer to the provincial war command post.

The provincial military-civilian joint command, as the highest decision-making command organ in this jurisdiction to command the use of national defense mobilization resources and to organize the implementation of the mobilization, directly accepts the command of the eastern and southern war zones, focusing on planning and organizing strategic decision-making and national defense mobilization operations, as well as decision-making defense operations.

The South China Sea area command post is formed by elite forces of the command. It will be sent to the Zhanjiang area in due course, and focus on the prewar preparation in the South China Sea area, as well as organizational planning and command and control.

The special command post relies on the relevant military-civilian departments and industry systems and has constructed 12 special command posts including people's air defense, traffic mobilization, national economic mobilization, public opinion propaganda, stability maintenance, and chaos control. They were set up by each lead unit. Under the unified command of the military-civilian joint command, they shall organize and implement mobilization tasks in each section, and organize and take command of special operations.

2. Composition of command post personnel. The provincial party committee secretary is the general commander of the provincial military-civilian joint command, the governor, the provincial military region commander, political commissar for the commander are commanders.

Two centers including the command and control and national defense mobilization have been set up, to take charge of three departments including management and coordination, political work, and rear area logistics support.

The command and control center is mainly responsible for ensuring that the commander set the determination of action before participating in the war, command and control the ground defense, maritime reconnaissance, and people's air defense, and assist in anti-terrorism and stability operations.

The defense mobilization center is mainly responsible for guaranteeing the commander to set the mobilization determination, organizing and coordinating the implementation of national defense mobilization tasks, organizing mobilization support, assembly, transportation, handover, and other actions; the other three departments are responsible for the planning, organization, and coordination of related areas.

3. The command and decision-making operation mechanism. A unified leadership, sub-domain decision-making, coordination, and implementation of the command and decision-making and operation mode has been set up.

One, is the establishment of unified leadership of the command party committee, the first secretary is the provincial party committee secretary, and the secretary and deputy secretary are the provincial military district political commissar, governor, and provincial military district commander respectively. The party committee shall collectively study and make decisions on major national defense mobilization matters before joining the war.

Second, is the clear division of responsibility for sub-domain decision-making. After the party committee makes a decision, the commander of the division is responsible for the implementation. The governor is responsible for organizing the implementation of mobilization tasks. The commander of the provincial military district is responsible for organizing and commanding the action before participation in the war, in collaboration with the governor to organize the implementation of mobilization tasks. The political commissar of the provincial military district is responsible for organizing and leading political work, in collaboration with the commander to organize and command relevant actions.

Three, is the execution capability to collaborate and implement tasks. Routine coordination, contact, and consultation mechanism should be set up to meet and discuss the list of issues prior to action, give feedback on the mobilization process during the action, and jointly evaluate the effectiveness and the results after the action, to achieve fast and efficient command.

Fourth, is the command and insurance system. Based on the information security of the data and information room, a battalion scale information and communication force shall be set up at the provincial level, while a company scale and a platoon scale one should be set up at the municipal level and the county level respectively, to ensure the communication capability.

Using the means of the military and civilians at all levels, four main links have been established.

One, information link from the military commission joint command center to the war zone joint command center, to the province, city, and county military joint command center has been set up; mainly relying on the war zone joint command information system and the confidential information remote delivery system to be integrated into the joint command system.

Second, leadership, management, and information links from the mobilization department of the military commission to the provincial military district leadership management, mainly relying on the 509+ platform, national defense mobilization task information command system to assist mobilization organization command.

Third, the command communication links from the provincial, city, and county level military-civilian joint commands to the task teams, mainly relying on the ultra-short wave, Tiantong-1 satellite phone to establish mobile communications in motion.

Fourth, command and communication links from the army to the civilians, relying on the interconnection of the confidential password system on the Acer government intranet to deploy the national defense mobilization information system in relevant local civilian departments, and to introduce and import all kinds of civilian data to the military-civilian joint command, to open up the connection channel between the military and the civilian department.