Cultivate more talent for armed forces: Xi
BEIJING. - Chinese President Xi Jinping has called on the country’s major military research and educational institutions to cultivate more talent for the armed forces, and to build world-class military research and educational institutions.
President Xi, who is also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remarks while addressing heads of major military research and educational institutions Wednesday.
After presenting the heads of the three institutions with the military flag at a ceremony that marked the reshuffling of the institutions, President Xi called the reshuffling a vital decision made by the CPC Central Committee and the CMC to realise the Chinese Dream and build a stronger army.
In order to build a world-leading firstclass military research institution, the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) Academy of Military Science, as the leading force of scientific research in the military, should meet the new demands of military research and further combine military theories and technologies, he continued.
President Xi further stressed that the National Defence University of the PLA is a significant base to cultivate talent for joint operations as well as PLA officers, and should push forward innovation in its education, research and management to become a top comprehensive college on unified command.
As for the National University of Defence Technology, it must follow the worldwide trends of the development of military science, and work harder to make key technological breakthroughs, in order to build a world-class institution of higher education, according to President Xi.
Also on Wednesday, President Xi attended a symposium with the current chief officers of military education, research and training institutions.
“It takes first-class military talent, theory, and science and technology to build the PLA into a world-leading military,” President Xi said.
“Science and technology is the core fighting capacity in modern warfare,” he noted.