More than 30 million university and high school students in China
have received military training Since 1985,
Chi Haotian, State Councilor and concurrently Defense Minister,
said Saturday in Tianjin.
During the past 16 years, over 200,000 army officers were sent to
schools to give military training, he said, adding that from this
year, over 10 million students will receive military training each
year.
Chi, who is also a member of the Political Bureau of the Communist
Party of China Central Committee and vice chairman of the
Central Military Commission, said this at a national conference
on military training for students.
The meeting was held in north China's Tianjin Municipality by the
Ministry of Education and the Chinese People's Liberation Army
(PLA)'s Department of General Staff and the General Department of
Politics.
Chi called for a complete understanding of the great importance of
having military training for students and said it should be
regarded as a major issue beneficial to the state and the army.
(
November 11, 2001)