Military brass get high-tech training
( 2003-10-14 00:19) (Xinhua)
Senior officers from the People's Liberation Army
(PLA) gathered at a military academy on Monday for high-tech training to enhance
the PLA's high-tech capabilities, according to a report in the PLA Daily.
According to a plan approved by the Central Military Commission, the training
is part of China's ongoing military reforms to meet future needs.
The courses the leaders are taking will focus on information technology and
the study of war in the information age and the army's information-based
construction techniques, the newspaper said.
The academy was set up at the National University of Defence Technology in
Hefei, capital of East China's Anhui Province. A group of specially selected
academicians and experts have been arranged to teach the officers.
The PLA long ago decided to further improve education for its top military
officers by enhancing military science education and giving priority to
engineering courses closely related to new, high-tech weapons and equipment,
along with information technology.
China has decided to send an additional 1,600 military officers in the next
few years for postgraduate education at 29 universities and colleges, including
the prestigious Tsinghua University and Beijing University.
As part of a programme launched by the Ministry of Education and the armed
forces in 2001, nearly 3,000 military officers have since been trained at
selected non-military institutions of higher learning.
During an earlier meeting of PLA delegates on postgraduate education, Defence
Minister Cao Gangchuan said the armed forces have produced more than 4,100
graduates with doctoral degrees and over 22,500 graduates with master degrees
since 1992.
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