The newly established Information Engineering University attached to the Chinese People' s Liberation Army (PLA) will cultivate professionals for future hi- tech warfare involving the use of information technology.

Major General Zhou Rongting, president of the university, made this remark recently in an exclusive interview with Xinhua.

The new PLA university, located in Zhengzhou, the capital of Henan Province, was founded through the merger of three military schools in the same city, the Information Engineering Institute, the Measuring Institute, and the Electronic Technology Institute.

All major subjects related to the military use of information technology are being taught at the new university, said the president. Zhou pledged to build the university into a world-class school with all the necessary hardware and software.

The leadership of the school will make every effort to set up a new mechanism which will allow talented people to play a proper role, Zhou noted.

He said the university plans to further strengthen major specialties including information safety, modern communications technology, and space technology, and to create a number of new specialties such as remote image information engineering, satellite-navigation and -positioning engineering, and map data bank applications.

The university's primary goal is to turn its teaching and research achievements into productive forces and fighting capability, Zhou stressed. (Xinhua)