Middle-school graduates line up to join airforce

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Middle-school graduates line up to join airforce

Over 60,000 Chinese middle-school graduates have registered for the 2004 recruitment exam for airforce pilots, 23 percent more than last year.

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Over 60,000 Chinese middle-school graduates have registered for the 2004 recruitment exam for airforce pilots, 23 percent more than last year.

Officials with the Chinese Air Force Draft Board said the preliminary interview, which started last October, had concluded and the students who had passed were advised to prepare for the second-round test.

Candidates who received qualified academic results and passed the physical exam during the second-round test lasting from February to August, would be accepted by the China Air Force Aviation College.

The college has started recruiting and training high-caliber candidates to match the increasing complexity of weapons and facilities in recent years.

Last June, it recruited the first group of 19 graduates specializing in sciences and engineering from thousands of applicants from 74 Chinese universities.

They were the first batch without military backgrounds to be recruited since the reform of military aviation college enrollment in 1987.

In June last year, China's first group of 20 airforce pilots with bachelor degrees left the training center for service in operational units flying new fighter planes.

They were selected from among 5,000 university graduates from 19 military academies or colleges in July 2000.

The pilots were described by Air Force officers as well-informed and well-educated with a good command of foreign languages.

Source: Xinhua

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