According to the "Ministry of Defense Release" official Weibo account affiliated with the Ministry of National Defense of my country, conscription in the second half of this year will begin on August 15 and end at the end of September. Tan Kefei, spokesman for the Ministry of National Defense, said at the press conference that we will continue to implement a series of preferential policies such as retaining student status or admission qualifications for college students to join the military, enjoy educational subsidies, change majors after retiring and returning to school, exempt from exams for "junior college to bachelor's degree", and gain extra points for postgraduate entrance examinations to encourage high-quality young people. Encourage to apply.
This round of recruitment focuses on college students, highlighting the recruitment of graduates from various schools at all levels, giving priority to science and engineering college students and "skilled personnel required to prepare for war" to enlist in the army, and the age for graduates and current students to enlist in the army has been relaxed to 26 years old.
A new round of conscription, the age of graduate students has been relaxed to 26 years old
The author believes that the information revealed in this conscription is unusual, which means that recruiting high-quality talents to join the army has become the new normal for our army in the future.
A strong army cannot be built in one day.
"Ten years of army, thirty years of air force, and a hundred years of navy." The degree of difficulty and price paid to build a strong army are unimaginable.
Take our country's navy as an example - due to its diverse tasks, wide scope of activities, numerous and complex arms, specialties, and technical equipment, naval strength is the most direct reflection of a country's economy, science and technology, education (talent), and industrialization level.
The father of China's aircraft carrier electromagnetic catapult, Academician Ma Weimin
An aircraft carrier battle group requires the cooperation of thousands of people to be successful, which requires many outstanding talents who are familiar with various professional positions. Just imagine, can an illiterate person afford it?
The mainstay of the navy, China's Fujian aircraft carrier battle group design diagram
As it should be, not only the navy, but also high-tech services such as the air force, rocket force and strategic support force are also hungry for a large number of high-quality professional talents.
The educational level of soldiers is very important to the army. Even in the army, a large number of professional technologies and knowledge involved in the army, such as geography, machinery, ballistic calculations, etc., all require an education level of about high school to achieve and fully exert combat effectiveness.
Analysis of the cultural quality composition of active-duty soldiers in our army
Compared with the widespread illiteracy in our army in the early days of its founding, today, after China has implemented mass education, the quality of PLA soldiers has been greatly improved. It can be said to be a world of difference. Generally, active-duty soldiers are You can obtain a high school diploma, which is basically consistent with the militaries of major countries in the world.
There is a statistics on the education level of our army's recruits, which can be roughly divided into four situations: First, all recruits from cities and towns have high school education, including: vocational high school, technical secondary school, and technical school graduation. The second is a small number of students and college graduates from full-time colleges and universities, including students in private universities and students without enrollment status accepted by colleges and universities. The proportion of these recruits has increased. Third, recruits with agricultural registered permanent residence must have a junior high school education or above. The fourth is outstanding young people with high school graduation or above who are already working in enterprises and institutions.
The cultural quality of active-duty soldiers in our army is still low.
In the 21st century, with the development of economy and society, the family, the basic unit of society, has also undergone great changes. As a result, the current situation of soldiers is complicated, and most of them come from families with only one child. Therefore, although our army requires urban soldiers to have an education level of high school or above when recruiting soldiers, judging from the actual situation, it is difficult to recruit soldiers who have truly completed high school education.
Many young people join the army because they dropped out of school, with the mentality of "training" in the army so that they can find a better career in the future. Young people who are truly educated and highly qualified disdain to join the army. In such a general environment, As a result, the overall cultural quality of current soldiers is still low, and they are not suitable for the development of the army in the era of informationization and intelligence and the requirements for building a strong military.
Image source: The military author's public paper on the Internet
Our military officers are in urgent need of high-quality talents
The training of officers of the People's Liberation Army is particularly important.According to public information, the main way for our military officers to train is through military academies, such as Dalian Naval Academy and so on.
Compared with non-commissioned officers and soldiers, officer education is more in-depth and broader in content, covering everything from theory to practice, from technology to tactics. Therefore, teachers in all military academies that require courses with high professional and technical requirements, such as mathematics, physics, etc., must have a high level of cultural quality.
Although non-commissioned officers are not military officers, they must also undergo military school education before they can hold technical positions.
Obviously, the existing conditions of the army alone can no longer meet the strong demand for high-quality talents for a strong army, especially in preparation for war under the current turbulent situation.
Our military academy
In summary, expanding the channels for college students to enlist in the army and recruiting more outstanding talents to join the army will, firstly, help solve the military’s desire for high-quality talents; at the same time, it can also effectively alleviate the serious employment pressure of college students. . Best of both worlds. In fact, in recent years, a large number of outstanding college students have joined the army, which has significantly improved the cultural structure of the military personnel and injected fresh blood into strengthening the army.
The road to a strong army lies in talents
In today's world, only by being smarter than others can we win future wars. A "strong army" should not only be able to match its opponents in terms of weapons and equipment, but more importantly, it must have a large number of talents with first-class scientific, technological and cultural literacy.
The key to winning a strong military preparedness war depends on talents. Therefore, this is why our army is targeting college students and graduate students in this round of recruitment.
●The author declares: The content in this article comes from available public information and is for reference only.
