Deng Xiaoping has consistently advocated training people for both military and civilian jobs. On December 28, 1977, at a plenary meeting of the Military Commission of the CPC Central Committee, he said, "Our army should have more diversified training. It should not just concentrate on its own needs; it should also consider what will be required of our officers and men when they are demobilized." And in June 1983 he wrote this message for the Exhibition of Achievements by Servicemen in Studying Science and Culture and in Preparing for Both Military and Civilian Jobs: "We must do all we can to train people both to fight in wars and to participate in socialist construction."