The People's Liberation Army (PLA) will take complete and direct control over managing China's land borders including with India, after Beijing announced a sweeping reform that will demobilise its frontier defence police force. A wide-ranging reform of Party and State institutions was unveiled late on Wednesday, a day after the annual National People's Congress or parliament session closed. Many of the reforms are aimed at strengthening the direct control of Communist Party institutions, which had in recent years ceded authority to State or government institutions to implement policies. Under Xi Jinping, the CPC has however sought to more centralise its control, from foreign policy to national security and bridge the divide between Party and State. The reform plan said it would demobilise the border police from the Armed Police Forces along with other units of the People's Armed Police Force (PAPF) such as fire brigades.