{
  "id": 17157983,
  "title": "Inside the PLA’s new austerity drive: lean, mean, printing-on-both-sides machine",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/30/inside-the-plas-new-austerity-drive-lean-mean-printing-on-both-sides-17157983",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-30T01:00:11.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "South China Morning Post",
    "slug": "south-china-morning-post",
    "url": "https://www.scmp.com/news/china/military/article/3372552/inside-plas-new-austerity-drive-lean-mean-printing-both-sides-machine"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is distributing second-hand briefcases, salvaging screws and steel bars, and reusing holiday decorations to keep costs down as part of a thrift campaign emphasising growth through frugality. It forms part of a broader cost-cutting effort in the Chinese military under Beijing’s 15th five-year plan covering 2026 to 2030, which calls for building the armed forces…",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}