700-plus college students enlist in army
( 2003-11-27 21:05) (Xinhua)
More than 700 college students from over 200 colleges and universities joined
the army Wednesday after three months' training.
The recruitment was authorized by the headquarters of the general staff of
the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the PLA General Political
Department.
The new recruits will be allocated to the general staff headquarters, the
general political department, the National Defense Science and Technology
University, the Military Academy of Sciences and the University of National
defense.
The 700-plus new soldiers, with master and doctorate degrees accounting for
nearly one third of the total, were selected from several thousand college
graduates from across the country.
Since China began to recruit college students in 1991, more than 8,000
college and university graduates from across the country and some graduate
students returned from overseas have served in the headquarters of the PLA
general staff.
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