Most Military Officers Receive Higher Education: White Paper

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Most Military Officers Receive Higher Education: White Paper

More than 80 percent of officers ofthe People's Liberation Army PLA (PLA) have received junior college or higher education, according to a white paper on China'snational defense issued Monday.

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More than 80 percent of officers ofthe People's Liberation Army PLA (PLA) have received junior college or higher education, according to a white paper on China'snational defense issued Monday.

More than 30,000 of them have doctor's or master's degrees, andmany of them hold leading posts at the division or regiment level,says the white paper -- "China's National Defense in 2002," issuedby the Information Office of the State Council.

The PLA persists in taking the training of high-quality military personnel of a new type as a fundamental measure for promoting a leapfrog development of the armed forces' modernization.

In recent years, the white paper says, the PLA has constantly raised the training level of officer candidates, adjusted the sources of officer candidates, and established a scientific and justified system for training such candidates, resulting in a marked improvement in the training level, quality and efficiency of military personnel.

At present, on-the-job training of officers is gradually undergoing a change from academic credentials education to all-round continuing education. Except for a small number of officers who have to take academic credentials education, the overwhelming majority of officers would update their knowledge mainly through short-term training.

Based on the Decision on Establishing a System for Training Military Cadres by Reliance on Regular Institutions of Higher Learning, promulgated by the State Council and the Central Military Commission (CMC) in May 2000, more than 50 institutions of higher learning, including Peking University and Tsinghua University, have undertaken the task of training personnel for thearmed forces, providing a large batch of outstanding personnel forthe PLA each year.

To meet the requirement of building a strong military through science and technology, the PLA pays great attention to the training of high-level personnel, the white paper says.

In the past two years, the PLA's mobile post-doctoral stations and doctor's or master's degree authorization centers have increased by large margins, the academic degree authorization system has been improved gradually, and the training scale has been enlarged substantially.

The plan of setting up specialties for the master degree of military science as an experiment marks a new stage in the training of high-level professionals for the armed forces.

In addition, the PLA regards the exchange of officers as an important channel for training and tempering them and raising their quality. Laws and regulations have been promulgated to lay down concrete stipulations on the condition, scope, organization and implementation of officer exchange.

A regular rotation system has been instituted for officers of the garrison force in Hong Kong and Macao.

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