On September 23, 1986, PRC's military attachés eye-witnessed a West-German live fire exercise. One can only imagine how they felt seeing one of the most lethal armies in the world in action. PLA was in a poor state back in the 1980s -- starting in 1978, Deng Xiaoping reduced PLA's budget to the minimum, PLA had to support its "modernization" effort by converting part of industries to