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Since 2008, the main targets of recruitment for the Chinese People's Liberation Army and the Armed Police Force are no longer the unemployed urban youths above high school and rural youth above junior high school that have continued for decades, but have been changed to various types of recruitment. Fresh graduates from various colleges and universities.

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

Three reasons affect the quality of soldier recruitment

“When one person serves as a soldier, the whole family is honored.” For many years, joining the army has not only fulfilled the heroic dreams of many young people, but also has the same relationship as above. There are parallel options and outlets for university and recruiting workers into factories, which have the same competitive advantages.

However, this enthusiasm for joining the army has quietly cooled down since the 1990s.

In the 21st century, although the army requires urban soldiers to have an education level of high school or above when recruiting soldiers, in fact, it has been difficult to recruit soldiers who have actually completed high school education.

A division political commissar of a combat unit once lamented: "Now it is very difficult for me to choose a high school graduate to be the squad leader."

What causes the difficulty in recruiting outstanding soldiers? There are three reasons: expansion of college enrollment, more choices, and fewer promotion opportunities.

The first is the expansion of enrollment in colleges and universities. Since 1999, Chinese colleges and universities have begun a large-scale expansion of enrollment. In the year of the expansion, the enrollment scale of ordinary colleges and universities nationwide expanded from 1.08 million in 1998 to 1.59 million. Subsequently, there has been a major expansion in enrollment for several consecutive years.

In 2005, the number of students enrolled in general colleges and universities nationwide exceeded 5 million. By this year, the number of students enrolled in general colleges and universities nationwide reached 6 million, nearly six times that of 1998. In Beijing, this year’s university admission rate reached an unprecedented 76%.

This number does not include the number of students enrolled in various private colleges and universities and professional and technical schools. If added, it is estimated to be around 10 million. Obviously, after the advantageous selection by colleges and universities, there are not many choices left for the army.

This does not mean that the remaining young people are willing to join the army. China's rapid economic development for many years has given them more room for choice. After passing the college entrance examination, the young people who failed obviously did not have the patience to wait until the end of the year to be drafted into the army. More people chose to seek a job in developed coastal areas. In many villages in the underdeveloped western region, it is already difficult to find young people working at home to farm.

Within the military, the officer selection model has also shifted from relying on outstanding soldiers in the past to relying on military academies and local colleges and universities. Young students must pass exams and enter colleges and universities before they can become officers, and soldiers become Opportunities for officers are dwindling. This has also weakened the enthusiasm of young people to join the army to a considerable extent.

Three major reasons have led to the continuous decline in the quality of newly recruited soldiers. The obviously low educational level of the soldiers also affects and restricts the improvement of the combat effectiveness of the troops.

Improving the quality of soldiers and adjusting the subjects for recruitment

The issue of soldier quality has attracted attention at all levels of the military in recent years, and various pilot projects to improve the quality of soldiers are also different. carried out in the region.

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

Among the soldier recruitment reforms, the most eye-catching one is the recruitment of college students into the army. According to my country's current military service system, young people who enter colleges and universities are exempted from military service. Due to conceptual issues, this deferment of taxation became non-levy in actual operation.

In recent years, through successive pilot projects, the Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense has begun to promote the method of recruiting college students into the military on a voluntary basis across the country, and has introduced a series of supporting policies.

However, in the face of hundreds of thousands of newly recruited soldiers every year, thousands of college students and a smaller number of professional and technical non-commissioned officers are not enough to change the current situation of China's military structure. If you want to improve the quality of soldiers, you must adjust the scope of recruitment targets.

Within the existing legal and regulatory framework, the Military Service Recruitment Department of the Ministry of National Defense finally made the decision to adjust the subjects of recruitment in the winter of 2008, and issued it to all levels of military service agencies for implementation. .

An official from the Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense explained that various types of colleges and universities at all levels refer to ordinary undergraduates, higher vocational colleges, ordinary high schools, ordinary technical secondary schools, vocational high schools, and technical schools, but not Including 2008 fresh graduates from various non-academic education, training colleges, correspondence courses, and self-study colleges. Fresh graduates refer to students who graduated in the summer of 2008, and also include 2009 graduates who are doing internships after completing professional courses and have the intention to join the military.

To put it simply, in the 2008 conscription, the educational level threshold was raised. The recruitment of highly educated young people has become an important indicator for measuring the 2008 recruitment work of military service agencies at all levels.

The recruitment standards have gone up and down, showing that the military is urgently determined to improve the cultural quality of soldiers.

While raising the cultural threshold, the physical examination standards were relaxed in 2008. Except for some special positions, the vision requirements for soldiers working in land service positions have dropped, and the higher the academic qualifications, the greater the scope of vision relaxation.

At the same time, the age for young people with a college degree or above to join the army has also been relaxed to 22 years old.

"In some positions, wearing glasses will not affect the completion of tasks. On the contrary, the factor that has affected our combat effectiveness level is that the educational level of soldiers is too low." The person in charge of the Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense said explain.

The conditions for political review have also changed accordingly. Factors such as family background that have long been downplayed have been more thoroughly downplayed this time, and moral level and social ethics have become one of the evaluation indicators. one. "We believe that a young man who takes the initiative to participate in community voluntary work has basic political conditions." The person in charge emphasized.

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 improved standards. According to statistics from the Recruitment Office of the Ministry of National Defense, in 2007, the number of students enrolled in various higher education institutions across the country reached 27 million, and in 2008, the number of college graduates reached more than 5 million. Male graduates from various colleges and universities at all levels can be selected by the military. With nearly 10 million students, it is a huge group of high-quality young people.

In Beijing, Shanghai and other places, recruitment public service advertisements and recruitment animation short films, as new things, began to appear in newspapers, TV and subway stations, and various publicity activities were carried out on the streets, schools and carried out in the community. The propaganda slogans have also changed from "One person joins the army, the whole family is glorious" to various slogans such as "Men go to the army!" "Let's go to the army together!" At a university in Beijing, a post about six male students from a dormitory collectively signing up to join the army was widely praised on the campus website.

The reformed military service system is to serve as a compulsory soldier for two years first, and then you can choose to stay in the army or retire and return home. If you stay in the army, you will first sign a three-year contract. This period is called The salary of a non-commissioned officer in the first term is about 1,200 yuan. After the three-year contract expires, you can continue to sign or choose to retire. If you sign again to become a second-term sergeant, your salary will be about 2,000 for three years, and so on. The treatment for applying for early retirement is the same as the regular retirement treatment, that is, the length of service when you return to the place is based on your Actual military service is calculated