For days running, Li Xueju, minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs, has
led a visiting group to convey Lunar New Year greetings and appreciation to the
officers and men of the PLA and the Armed Police Force, which took them to the
four general headquarters/departments, various services and arms of the PLA and
the Armed Police Force.
In turn, Li Jinai, member of the Central Military Commission and director
of the General Political Department of the PLA, Chen Bingde, member of the
Central Military Commission and director of the General Armaments Department of
the PLA as well as the leaders of the four general headquarters/departments of
the PLA, various services and arms and Armed Police Force expressed their
gratefulness to the Party committees and the local governments at various levels
as well as the public for their concern about and support to the army building.
According to Luo Pingfei, deputy minister of the Ministry of Civil Affairs,
new accomplishments have been made nationwide in the "Double Supports" (support
the army and give preferential treatment to the families of the servicemen and
martyrs and support the government and cherish the people) work in 2006: 20,000
odd military personnel were trained for the army by the local organizations
throughout the country, 1,000-plus hard-nut scientific and technological
problems ran into in military training and exercises were answered with the help
of the local organizations, more than 600 technological innovations were made
for the army, over 20 million books and 6,000 computers and TV sets were donated
to the troops and 120 million yuan were spent for building libraries for the
military.
On their part, the PLA and the Armed Police Force successively helped to
build over 30,000 projects such as water-efficient irrigation projects in the
rural areas. They also raised over 57 million yuan to build 112 "August 1
Cherishing-the-People Schools". In addition, they provided aid in the
construction of 180-odd key projects including the Qinghai-Tibet Railway, and
sent over 180,000 person/times of military personnel to help the local
governments to fight against natural disasters.
By Yang Zurong
(Feb 15, PLA Daily)
