China's Second Artillery Force, the country's strategic missile troops, have about 160 high-caliber professionals with doctorates or post-doctoral education, thanks to its program to introduce and train well-educated professionals.

Sources with the artillery force said 88.9 percent of its servicemen have at least junior college education.

It is the long-term strategic goal to build a well-educated army adapting to the trends of world military development and national defense strategy, said the sources.

The artillery force began to formulate plans to recruit and train high-caliber professionals in cooperation with seven non-military universities with an annual funding of 10 million yuan (1.2 million US dollars).

The artillery force gives professionals with doctoral or postgraduate degrees 50,000 yuan (6,097 US dollars) and 30,000 yuan (3,658 US dollars) in subsidies, once they are recruited, with better living and working conditions

Source: Xinhua