Major Adjustment in China's Conscription Policy in 28

Since 28, the main target of recruiting soldiers for China People's Liberation Army and Armed Police Force is no longer unemployed youth in cities and towns above high school and rural youth above junior high school, which has lasted for decades, but fresh graduates from various colleges and universities.

In order to improve academic standards, the national military service organs even relaxed the requirements for physical indicators such as eyesight. The army's demand for highly educated soldiers is unprecedented.

Three reasons affect the quality of recruiting soldiers

"One soldier makes the whole family glorious." For many years, joining the army can not only fulfill the heroic dreams of many young people, but also be a parallel choice and outlet with going to college and recruiting workers to enter the factory, which has the same competitive advantage.

However, this enthusiasm for joining the army has quietly turned cold since the 199s.

in the 21st century, although the army requires that the education level of urban soldiers should be above high school when recruiting soldiers, in fact, it is difficult to recruit soldiers who have really completed their high school education.

A division political commissar of a combat unit once lamented: "It is very difficult for me to choose a high school graduate as the monitor now."

what caused the difficulty in recruiting excellent soldiers? There are three reasons: the expansion of colleges and universities, the increase of choices and the decrease of promotion opportunities.

the first is the expansion of colleges and universities. Since 1999, colleges and universities in China have started a large-scale enrollment expansion. In the same year, the enrollment scale of ordinary colleges and universities nationwide has expanded from 1.8 million in 1998 to 1.59 million, and then it has been expanded for several years.

In p>25, the enrollment of colleges and universities in China exceeded 5 million, and this year, the enrollment of colleges and universities in China reached 6 million, nearly six times that of 1998. In Beijing, this year's college enrollment rate has reached an unprecedented 76%.

This figure does not include the enrollment of various private colleges and technical schools. If added, it is estimated to be around 1 million. Obviously, after the superior selection of colleges and universities, there is not much choice left for the army.

This does not mean that all the remaining young people are willing to come to the army. China's rapid economic development for many years has given them more choices. After the college entrance examination, the young people who failed in the list obviously have no patience to wait until the end of the year to recruit, and more people choose to seek a job in the developed coastal areas. In many villages in underdeveloped areas in the west, it is difficult to find young people who work at home.

Within the military, the mode of selecting officers has changed from good soldier to relying on military schools and local colleges and universities. Young students have to pass exams to enter colleges and universities before they can become officers, while soldiers have fewer and fewer opportunities to become officers. This has also weakened the enthusiasm of young people to join the army to a considerable extent.

Three reasons have led to a continuous decline in the quality of newly recruited soldiers. However, the obvious low educational level of the soldiers has affected and restricted the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Improving the quality of soldiers and adjusting the subject of recruitment

In recent years, the quality of soldiers has attracted the attention of all levels of the army, and various pilot work to improve the quality of soldiers has also been carried out in different regions.

For example, the army began to directly recruit professional and technical non-commissioned officers in various vocational and technical schools, and entered the army as drivers, electricians, nurses and other positions. Some military regions openly select young women with high comprehensive quality to join the army through written tests, interviews and talent shows.

in the reform of enlistment, the most striking one is to enlist college students. According to China's current military service system, young people who enter colleges and universities are given a deferment. Because of the concept problem, this kind of deferment has become non-sign in the actual operation process.

In recent years, the Conscription Office of the Ministry of National Defense has begun to popularize the method that college students can enlist in the army on a voluntary basis through successive pilot projects, and has issued a series of auxiliary policies.

However, faced with hundreds of thousands of newly recruited soldiers, thousands of college students and fewer professional and technical non-commissioned officers every year, it is not enough to change the present situation of China's military structure. In order to improve the quality of soldiers, it is necessary to adjust the scope of recruitment targets.

within the framework of the existing laws and regulations, the military service recruitment department of the Ministry of National Defense finally made a decision to adjust the subject of recruitment in the winter of 28, and issued it to military service organs at all levels for implementation.

An official of the Military Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense explained that colleges and universities at all levels refer to ordinary undergraduate courses, higher vocational colleges, ordinary high schools, ordinary secondary schools, vocational high schools and technical schools, but do not include the 28 fresh graduates of various non-academic education and training colleges and correspondence and self-taught colleges. This year's graduates refer to those who graduated in the summer of 28, and also include the 29 graduates who are practicing after completing their professional courses and have the intention to join the army.

To put it simply, the recruitment in 28 raised the threshold for education. Recruiting highly educated young people has become an important indicator to measure the conscription work of military service organs at all levels in 28.

The recruitment standards have risen and fallen, which shows that the army is determined to improve the cultural quality of soldiers.

While raising the cultural threshold, the physical examination standards in 28 have been relaxed. Except for some special posts, the vision requirements of soldiers working in land service posts have decreased, and the higher their academic qualifications, the greater the scale of vision relaxation.

At the same time, the age for young people with college education or above to join the army has been relaxed to 22.

"In some positions, wearing glasses will not affect the completion of the task. On the contrary, the factor that has affected our combat effectiveness is that the soldiers' education level is too low. " The head of the conscription office of the Ministry of National Defense said this.

The conditions of political censorship have also changed accordingly. In fact, factors such as family background have been diluted more thoroughly this time, and moral level and social morality awareness have become one of the indicators of evaluation. "A young man who takes the initiative to participate in community voluntary work, we think he has basic political conditions." The person in charge stressed.

The Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense also expressed optimism about whether a considerable number of high-quality soldiers can be recruited according to the upgraded standards. According to the statistics of the Military Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense, in 27, the number of students in all kinds of higher education in China reached 27 million, and in 28, there were more than 5 million college graduates. There were nearly 1 million male graduates available for military selection in various colleges and universities, which is a huge group of high-quality young people.

In Beijing, Shanghai and other places, as a new thing, public service advertisements and short cartoons of conscription began to appear in newspapers, television and subway stations, and various publicity activities were carried out in streets, schools and communities. The propaganda slogan has also changed from "One person joins the army and the whole family is glorious" to "Men go to the army!" "Come on, let's join the army!" And other diversified slogans. In a university in Beijing, a post that six boys in a dormitory collectively signed up for the army was widely praised on the campus website.