The People's Liberation Army (PLA) began to develop its new generation of service uniforms at the beginning of 1993. The new uniforms were presented to the Central Military Commission (CMC) for approval in 1995.

The CMC held a meeting on April 10, 1995 to examine the new uniforms. By the approval of Chairman Jiang Zemin, who examined the new uniforms personally, the new generation of uniforms were first tried on by the PLA Garrison stationed in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region on May 1, 1997 and were introduced to the three services in the spring of 2000.

The new generation of uniforms includes nine items, namely, military dress uniform, spring/autumn military service uniform, summer military service uniform, sweaters, battle dress uniform, physical training dress , caps and decorations, shoes/boots, and bullet-proof vest.

Military dress uniform

1. Style: Open-necked coat with picked lapel and square laps. Two lower insert pockets with flap. Toothed-edges (distinguishing type of service) at collar edge, sleeve cuffs and out-seams on trousers. Western-style trousers in dark greenish brown (Army), gray (Navy) or deep sky-blue (Air Force.)

2. Material: Thin whipcord

3. Decorations: Big cap insignia, hard epaulets, collar insignias, tie, tie bar, service mark tag, identity tag, aiguillette.

4. Cap: Peak hat.

5. Shoes: Leather.

Military dress uniform for the Army's male officers	Military dress uniform for the Army's female officers
Military dress uniform for the Navy's male officers	Military dress uniform for the Navy's female officers
Military dress uniform for the Air Force's male officers	Military dress uniform for the Air Force's female officers

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