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The thesis is a study on the development of China''s People
Liberation Army''s Navy(PLAN) and its strategic influence since
Deng Xiao-ping seized the power in 3rd Plenum of the 11th China
Communist Party Central Committee(CCPCC) in 1978. The
implication of the so-called "development" in this thesis
includes the modernization of China''s Navy and the adjustment
of its establishing approach since the national strategy has
been fundamentally hanged. Not far from 1980s has Deng been
seeking to solve the economic problem by reforming the economic
structure and executing the open policy. Recently China
aggresively expands the Navy power not only for its domestic
economic element, but also for two favorable conditions in the
international strategic environment. One is the collaspe of
the Soviet Union that relieves the threat from the north.
Since Communist China was at odds with the Soviet Union, it
deployed strong forces on the long border between both nations
against the Soviet intervention. Therefore, the collapse of
the Soviet Union avails China more energy to develop Navy. The
other is the sovereignity dispute of South China Sea that
brings the enmity among the Southeastern states. As Russia is
unavailable to be involved in Asian Pacific area and the U.S.
withdraws its forces from the Subic Bay of Philippine, if China
wants to fill the power vacuum and seeks the dominant position
in this area, it must establish naval power with sufficient
combat capability. As the Cold War ended, the international
environment became less and less intense. The U.S. and Russia
have degraded their power and deflated their domestic economy,
it gave Communist China an excellent chance to strengthen and
enlarge the sea power. It does matter the strategic
circumstance of Asian Pacific area. As the hostility of both
sides of Taiwan Strait has not been dismissed, the development
of Communist China''s Navy and its strategic influence matters
the survival interest of Taiwan that bears a
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