Chinese President Hu Jintao visited the University of National
Defense of the Chinese People's Liberation Army on Friday as the
Beijing institution marked its 80th anniversary.
Hu, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC)
Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission,
met with some retired and incumbent senior teachers and leaders of
the school. He also paid a visit to an exhibition hall displaying
the school's history.
Training a large group of military talents is fundamental and
vital for building, ruling and strengthening our armed forces, Hu
said.
The president urged the top military university to study the
essence of the 17th CPC National Congress, to display tradition and
to promote the "sound and rapid" development of military
academies.
He also asked the university to reform and innovate, so as to
improve the teaching and military personnel training quality.
Through 80 years of development, the training brigade of the
Chinese Workers' and Peasants' Red Army set up in 1927 by the late
Chairman Mao Zedong, has now become the prestigious University of
National Defense, the country's and the army's important military
education base.
(Xinhua News Agency December 8, 2007)