Happy families improve morale in army

Many People's Liberation Army units have refitted their guesthouses or offices into "family-reunion apartments" for noncommissioned officers in an attempt to address their long periods of separation from families.

"The good news came to me all of a sudden," Wang Xingtao, an NCO with the equipment repair battalion of the 12th Group Army, told PLA Daily.

Wang is one of the 34 NCOs to benefit from his brigade's measure to enable more wives and children to spend Spring Festival, the most important feast in Chinese culture, with noncommissioned officers, the report said, noting the unit rebuilt its guesthouses as family-reunion apartments last year.