Chinese President and Chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) Hu Jintao attached great importance to the issue of military training in peacetime Tuesday, when he delivered a keynote speech at the ongoing military training conference of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA).

The Army, which used to depend on mechanical equipment, should accommodate its military training to the circumstances of the information age in a step-by-step manner, said China's top leader, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee.

Military training should be enhanced up to a higher level by making innovation on the basis of existing achievements, Hu said, urging the Army to carry out its historic mission efficiently.

In his speech, the Chinese leader said that China's security situation has witnessed profound changes and the Army is carrying out a new historic mission, so that the Army should intensify the efforts in military training, with a strategic awareness about the general situation.

The Chinese Army should work hard in military training, in an effort to meet the progress and changes in the status of warfare and the method of battle, according to the leader. "Step up military training to strengthen the Army and be rigorous in carrying military training," he stressed.

He urged the Army to bring into full play the role of science and technology and carry out reforms and innovations, so as to set up a scientific system for military training under the new circumstances.

All service people should be made aware of the Army's historic mission, ideology, fighting spirits, and socialist ethics, while upholding the Marxist view of war, patriotism and revolutionary heroism, the leader said.

The meeting was presided by CMC Vice-Chairman Guo Boxiong and attended by CMC Vice-Chairmen Cao Gangchuan and Xu Caihou, and CMC Members Liang Guanglie, Li Jinai, Liao Xilong, Chen Bingde, Qiao Qingchen and Jing Zhiyuan.

Source: Xinhua