Broaden talent cultivation channels
( 2003-07-10 10:50) (PLA Daily)
To implement talent cultivation strategy project
and accelerate talent cultivation, we must broaden talent cultivation channels
by adopting multiple-forms and making full use of various resources, and strive
to form a new talent cultivation structure, in which military education is
combined with national education, elementary education linked with continued
education, college education complemented with army training, and cultivation
within the army combined with training outside the army.
In today's world, the military competition increasingly becomes a competition
in military high technology and military talents. And talent competition, in a
sense, is a competition in education and cultivation. Whoever is able to tap all
available channels of education, will seize a critical opportunity and take the
lead in talent cultivation. In an information-oriented society, cultivating
talents behind closed doors, just like, so to speak, making a cart behind closed
doors, will not be able to bring forth high-quality personnel. All military
powers in the world regard broadening talent cultivation channels as an
important approach to enhance the quality of the servicemen. In order to rise to
the challenge of the global new military changes and push military changes with
Chinese characteristics, we must also broaden talent cultivation channels and to
accelerate IT application. Chairman Jiang of the Central Military Commission
requires us to select and cultivate high-quality personnel in a wider scope,
showing us clearly the way forward in our military talent cultivation work from
an overall and strategic height.
To broaden the channels for cultivating military talents, military colleges
must function as the main channel. As the base for military talent cultivation,
military colleges bear arduous tasks and important responsibilities in
implementing talent cultivation strategy project. With the expansion of military
cadre cultivation by relying on non-military universities and colleges, military
colleges must pool their human and material resources to do a good job of
military education, and gradually increase the proportion of continued education
for cadres. Command colleges at intermediate or high level must enroll more
leading cadres for training, actively develop joint running of schools, do a
good job of interdisciplinary, and exert themselves to enhance composite quality
of the leading cadres and their capabilities to command combined operation.
Excellent young cadres should be provided with future-oriented training and
follow-up cultivation. In polytechnic colleges and related scientific research
institutes and manufacturers, specialized technical personnel training classes
should be offered so as to cultivate technical backbone urgently needed by the
army to operate newly acquired advanced equipment. All colleges must strictly
carry out relevant rules and regulations laid down by the Central Military
Commission so as to ensure that educational resources are fully used for
cultivation of military talents.
Chairman Jiang pointed out that we must explore the approach of talent
cultivation by the army combined with national education. To broaden talent
cultivation channels, we must actively draw support from social educational
resources. For a long time, our military cadre cultivation lack full use of
social educational resources. That is an important cause for hindering the
enhancement of overall quality of our military personnel. Compared with military
colleges, local regular institutions of higher learning, especially national key
universities and colleges, have high-quality teaching staff, advanced teaching
facilities and methods, extensive information exchange channels and strong
innovative capability. By closely combining education within the army with
reliance on national education, we can optimize allocation of educational
resources in a wider scope, and enhance our military personnel cultivation
quality. The rapid development of national education and technology provides a
favorable condition for the military to cultivate high-caliber military
personnel; therefore we must seize the opportunity and make full use of social
educational resources.
The army is a large school itself. To enhance the quality of cadres, besides
college education, other forms of cultivation and training should also be
adopted. We must do a good job of training cadres into talents while they are
working at their posts. We must advocate and encourage self-study among cadres
to enhance their overall knowledge. Leaders at all levels must pay attention to
passing on experience, helping and guiding new hands in their work, that is,
through methods of veterans guiding new hands, and the strong helping the weak,
to improve the actual working capacity of young cadres and enhance their
qualities to deal with various complex situation. We must place cadres,
especially excellent young cadres, at important posts and temper them in hard
conditions so that they can get tempered and enhance capabilities in practice.
Allowing cadres to go abroad for study, or study tour, is an important
channel for talent cultivation under the new situation. To implement talent
cultivation strategy, and to cultivate a large number of high-quality new
military talents, we must gear to the needs of modernization, of the world and
of the future. We must have the overall situation and long-term development of
army building in view, let going abroad for study and study tour become an
effective way to accelerate talent cultivation, and subsume it into the overall
plan of military talent cultivation plan. At the same time we must constantly
sum up experiences, gradually improve and perfect the relevant rules and
regulations and push the work of talent cultivation to develop in a steady and
healthy way.
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