Xu Caihou, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and vice chairman of the Central Military Commission, went to the Armored Force Engineering Academy on September 10 to observe the Teachers' Day together with the faculty, when he noted that all military schools should always hold fast to the right direction of running schools, attach importance to and enhance the development of the ranks of teachers as in the past, and further create an excellent atmosphere of respecting teachers and taking education seriously.

　　Chang Wanquan, member of the Central Military Commission and director of the General Armaments Department of the PLA, accompanied Xu Caihou during the visit.

　　Xu Caihou extended festival greetings to the faculty of the academy, expressed sincere gratitude for their industrious work and made quite affirmative comments on their achievements.

　　Xu Caihou emphasized that well-trained people are the foundation for invigorating and building up a powerful army. Being the important breeding grounds for well-trained and competent personnel, military schools should further carry out the reforms of teaching and scientific research, and align the teaching and scientific research more with the actual demands of real war and the troops so as to provide more powerful support in terms of competent personnel and technology to the preparation for military struggles and the army building.

　　Xu Caihou pointed out that all teachers should have lofty moral sentiment and spiritual pursuit, acquire the approach of meticulous and truth-seeking scholarship, cultivate excellent teacher ethics and integrity, and act in real earnest as paragons of virtue and learning.

　　By Xu Sheng

　　(Sept 11, PLA Daily)                                       Editor: Chen Jie