|commander-in-chief=[[ဟူကျင်ထောင်းရှိကျင့်ဖျင်]] (ဗဟိုစစ်ရေး ကော်မရှင် ဥက္ကဋ္ဌ)<ref>Article 93 of the [[Constitution of the People's Republic of China]] places the authority to direct the armed forces of the PRC in the [[Central Military Commission (People's Republic of China)|Central Military Commission]]. However, Article 80 gives the [[President of the People's Republic of China]] the power to proclaim martial law, proclaim a state of war, and issue mobilization orders. Since the mid-1990s, it has been standard practice to have the President, the CMC Chairman, and the [[General Secretary of the Communist Party of China]] be the same person although the differences in the start of terms means that there is some overlap between an occupant and his predecessor.</ref>
