[Zhang Fei]

China may have somewhere over 1,000 nuclear bombs, but most of those are gravity bombs dropped from airplanes. There are relatively few nuclear ballistic missiles in Chinese service, most of those for countervalue strikes.

From the article:

They spent three years translating secret military documents, scouring the internet and studying satellite images for clues – and concluded that China may have as many as 3,000 missiles, compared with general estimates of between 80 and 400.

My assumption is that if we couldn't tell whether Saddam had nukes, we probably don't know how many nukes China has. Given the current $166b Chinese military budget, I suspect they have a lot more than just about every other country apart from the US and Russia. The articles seem to indicate that instead of silos, they're built rail-mounted ICBM's housed in tunnels dug into mountains.

[RayChuang88]

I think China needs shorter range missiles as a counter to South Korea, Japan, Taiwan and ESPECIALLY India. That's where most of the ballistic missile forces are concentrated. Their small number of longer range ballistic missile forces are more in the countervalue category, similar to the British and French nuclear forces during the height of the Cold War.