BEIJING : Chinese President Xi Jinping has asked the military to improve its management practices to promote high-quality development of the armed forces, the official media reported on Thursday.Xi, who heads the country's military “made the important instruction at a teleconference on strategic management training of the armed forces", Xinhua news agency reported.His comments on military modernisation came amid heightened tensions with India along the Line of Actual Control and a range of differences with the United States, including on Beijing's flexing of muscles in the strategic South and East China seas.Noting the significance for the armed forces to hold strategic management training, Xi, also the General Secretary of the ruling.