Nearly 10,000 military officers have achieved 961 scientific research objectives and solved more than 100 plateau scientific difficulties over the past three years,said sources from a meeting on Tibetan personnel training on Friday.

Most of the military officers are graduates from military colleges and about 80 percent of them worked in remote areas of Tibet, suffering cold weather, lack of oxygen and inconvenient transportation.

The outstanding role model is Li Suzhi, head of the Tibetan Military Area Command General Hospital. Working for 28 years in Tibet, he scored 32 domestically-advanced medical research breakthroughs. This February, he successfully completed a kidney transplant operation, the first in Tibet.

Zhu Zhihua, a staff member of a telecommunications station of the Tibetan Military Area Command, wrote more than 100 articles and dissertations on Internet research and two of his papers have been used by the military.

Nowadays, up to 70 percent of Tibetan military officers hold junior college-level degrees. Over recent years, a series of favorable policies have attracted well-educated military officers to work in Tibet.

The salary of a military officer working in Tibet is triple that of an officer working in other areas of China. A platoon-level officer earns around 3,000 yuan a month in Tibet, almost equal to that of a division commander working in Beijing.

The period of holiday with pay for military officers working inTibet is double that of an officer working in other areas.

If military officers work in Tibet, their relatives who live inrural areas can obtain urban household registry, which will benefit their children's education and employment.

When military officers, who work for more than 10 years in Tibet, are transferred to civilian work, their pension will be five to 15 percent higher than those working in other areas.

In recent years, the living conditions of Tibetan military officers has been greatly improved. Soldiers and officers can watch TV and enjoy home grown vegetables.

Telecommunications infrastructure in Tibet has improved, so that most soldiers and officers can talk to relatives over the telephone at any time.

Source: Xinhua