National Defense Mobilization Commission

The National Defense Mobilization Commission (NDMC) is an organization simultaneously under the State Council of the People's Republic of China and the Central Military Commission responsible for coordinating decisions concerning military affairs, strategic plans and defense mobilization.

It is responsible for bringing together civic resources in the event of a war, and coordinating these efforts with military operations.

[1][2] Since 2023, Premier Li Qiang has served as chairman of the commission, with State Council Secretary-General Wu Zhenglong and Defense Minister Li Shangfu as vice chairmen, and Lieutenant General Liu Faqing as secretary-general.

Liu is simultaneously the director of the National Defense Mobilization Department of the Central Military Commission[3] The National Commission for National Defense Mobilization is principally a coordination and policy-making body tasked with linking the military side with the civilian side of defense issues.

"[1] The main responsibilities of the National Defense Mobilization Committee as defined by law are: The Commission shares its functional offices with the CMC National Defense Mobilization Department and with other departments of the CMC, with identical personnel, in an example of the ubiquitous "one institution with two names" or "two institutions, one office" system.