Air force to offer pilot training in high schools

Students will be given special courses on national defense and aviation knowledge na

Starting this year, the Chinese air force will recruit 1,000 high school students each year to train as pilot candidates, according to a senior officer.

"Military aviators are a precious strategic resource for a nation, so the air force will work with distinguished high schools to select and foster pilot candidates," Colonel Shen Jinke, spokesman for the People's Liberation Army air force, said in a statement issued on the Defense Ministry's website on Thursday.