Jiang's theory pivotal to Army's talents building ( 2003-06-11 10:54) (pladaily) Today the PLA Daily carried
an commentary entitled Unifying thinking and fully understanding the strategic
significance of military personnel training strategy. The commentary said that
the PLA military personnel training strategy is a project, which the People's
Liberation Army (PLA) has enforced, to carry out new military changes and bring
about leapfrog development of the military. So long as the army implement
Chairman Jiang Zemin's thought on the PLA personnel training strategy and keep
pace with the times, dynamic situation in which large numbers of talented people
can be brought forth can be created.
The commentary noted that talents constitute the foundation needed to rule a
country and run an army. Throughout the history of our army, cultivation of
high-caliber personnel has always been a key part of the military building. Mao
Zedong set up military colleges and trained a generation of outstanding talents;
Deng Xiaoping stressed the respect for knowledge and talents, which laid a solid
foundation for the strategic change of the guiding thinking on army building in
the new period; while Jiang Zemin, on the basis of his deep insight of the trend
of new global military changes and with a view to enabling our army to win
battles and never degenerate, has made a series of important instructions and
strategic decisions, and formulated a scientific system on personnel training
strategy , which will surely play a tremendous role in the development of human
resources of the PLA.
The article continued to point out that Jiang's strategic thinking on talents
cultivation is rich in content, which includes: High-caliber personnel are
pivotal to meet the challenges of new global military changes, and training
large numbers of high-quality military personnel is a fundamental measure for
modernization drive and a leapfrog development of the armed forces; cultivation
of high-caliber personnel should start off before the others, we would rather
have high-caliber personnel wait for armaments, instead of the other way round;
cultivation of high-quality military personnel should meet the requirements of
future war; selection and employment of personnel should stick to the criteria
of both ability and political integrity with first consideration to political
integrity; military colleges are pivotal to cultivating human resources,
therefore strategic importance should be attached to the development of colleges
education; to combine training of high-caliber personnel by military
colleges with the training through non-military institutes of higher learning;
learning should be greatly encouraged among officers and men so as to boost
their scientific knowledge and enhance their political quality; practice is the
best classroom for learning knowledge, therefore posts should be taken as the
basic platform for improving the qualities of the servicemen; importance should
be attached to the readjustment and reform of the existing policies and systems
to gradually establish and perfect the working mechanism in favor of growth of
talents, etc.
In conclusion the commentary said that the Party committees and cadres at all
levels should fully understand the significance of military personnel training
strategy, and its relation with pushing forward the military changes with
Chinese characteristics and the realization of leapfrog development of the
military, emancipate their minds and discard various outdated ideas and
prejudice, so as to create a favorable conditions for the cultivation of
high-caliber personnel.
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