The Chinese regime's military and public security authorities have issued an order banning the sale, assembly, and marketing of retired military equipment, citing security risks. The move is also aimed at hiding the backwardness of Chinese weaponry, according to Chinese military scholars and a collector. The notice was issued by the Chinese regime’s six central governmental departments, including the top defense command and decision-making body of the Chinese military. It stipulates that no entity or individual may sell retired or scrapped military equipment. The ban also prohibits any unit or individual from using dismantled parts of decommissioned equipment to produce, modify, and re-assemble them, and then sell them as imitations of military equipment that the public might believe was real. The official notice did not disclose the types, quantities, or sources of decommoded equipment currently on the market.