Upon the approval of Chairman Hu Jintao and the Central Military
Commission, the PLA symposium on training joint operational commanders was held
in the National Defense University on June 26. At the symposium, participants
summed up and exchanged the experience of the PLA and the Armed Police Force in
training joint operational commanders and made arrangements for promoting the
training of joint operational commanders at a new starting point. Xu Caihou,
member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of
the Central Military Commission, stressed at the symposium that it was
imperative to vigorously intensify the cultivation of joint operational
commanders so as to provide a powerful talents support for comprehensively
carrying out the historical mission of the army in the new century and the new
period.
Chen Bingde, member of the Central Military Commission and chief of general
staff of the PLA, and Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission and
director of the General Political Department of the PLA, attended the symposium
and presided over the symposium respectively in the morning and in the
afternoon.
Xu Caihou pointed out that to strengthen the training of joint operational
commanders was an important strategic task put forward by Chairman Hu Jintao, an
inevitable requirement for the army to adapt itself to the change of battle
forms, a pressing need for the army to effectively fulfill its historical
mission in the new century and the new period and an important measure to boost
the PLA personnel training strategic program in order to bring up high-quality
military personnel of a new type.
Xu Caihou emphasized that in order to successfully train large number of
joint operational commanders, it was a must to conscientiously practice the
scientific outlook on development, make overall arrangements for the training
and grasp key links so as to enable the training to make progress in an
all-round manner and be improved entirely.
At the symposium, ten units gave an account of their experience in training
joint operational commanders.
By Wang Shibin and Lu Rongjun
(June 27, PLA
Daily)
Editor: Chen Jie
