The defence ministry says the move will help ‘adapt to the needs of restructuring military services and the military talent training’
China is reorganising its military education system and establishing academies for new service branches, as the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) pushes hard for modernisation.
According to the defence ministry, the PLA Ground Force Service Academy will be based in Hefei, Anhui province; the PLA Information Support Force Engineering University in Wuhan, Hubei province; and the PLA Joint Logistics Support Force Engineering University in Chongqing.
These academies will open recruitment for high school graduate applicants, with admission programmes and student enrolment to be announced in follow-up notices, ministry spokesman Jiang Bin said on Thursday.
Jiang said the initiative was taken to “adapt to the needs of restructuring military services and military talent training”.
