Can PLA training catch up with China’s rapid weapon development?

‘No matter how advanced the equipment is, if people cannot effectively operate it, it remains nothing more than cold steel’: PLA Daily2-MIN READ2-MIN0ListenPublished: 9:00am, 19 May 2026Updated: 9:10am, 19 May 2026China’s military mouthpiece has issued a rare warning that personnel may be insufficiently trained to operate new weapons, including unmanned systems, despite Beijing’s rapid advances in hardware.Some military units showed a low level of integration between personnel and equipment, Monday’s PLA Daily article cautioned, highlighting limited trust in systems and weak coordination between human operators and technology.It warned that without proper integration, “even advanced equipment may fail to deliver its operational advantages, reducing combat effectiveness and potentially leading to defeat in war”.01:29China’s first 076 ‘drone carrier’ amphibious assault ship begins sea trialsA series of domestically developed new weapons and equipment had been gradually distributed throughout the People’s Liberation Army, and many of the fielded weapons “are the results of new technologies, especially the widespread use of unmanned and intelligent systems”, the article said.