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GUANGDONG – More than 1,000 Chinese civil servants will have completed a week of military training by this Friday as part of efforts to improve their “discipline, awareness, cohesiveness and cooperation”, Xinhua reported. 
The training – required for all men below the age of 50, and women of below the age of 45 – has been controversial, with many internet users questioning how it would improve the government’s performance and how it would be funded.
About 1,100 civil servants from all departments of the Luohu district government in Shenzhen were being trained in five batches, each for one week, Xinhua reported. 
They have to get up at 6.20am and go to sleep at 10pm, with military training held during the day and seminars in the evening. 
“No matter whether they were senior officials or junior civil servants, young or old, the trainees ate, slept and trained together,” a district leader was quoted as saying.
Ni Zewang, the district’s Communist Party boss, hoped the training “would instil in staff the army’s spirit of tenacity and resolution”.
The district government responded to the doubts raised on social media by saying that the training was being implemented on condition that the trainees had finished their work beforehand. It said that only 20 per cent of staff in each department would be away during each week. 
The project was one of the training programmes scheduled for officials this year, it said, adding that the expense was within municipal government regulations.
The city of Shenzhen is not the first place to try military training in response to President Xi Jinping’s campaign against slackness and extravagance of government officials.
Xingren county, in Guizhou province, also started military training last September for officials who were believed to be unqualified or negligent.


Chinese civil servants have to learn discipline on PLA boot camp

Civil servants from Luohu district in Shenzhen have been undergoing military training similar to these Hong Kong students in 2011. Photo: Xinhua 

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Local party chief says training ‘will instil in staff the army’s spirit of tenacity and resolution’


Chinese civil servants have to learn discipline on PLA boot camp

.css-1c6uqr6{color:inherit;font-weight:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-family:inherit;line-height:inherit;overflow-wrap:break-word;}Local party chief says training ‘will instil in staff the army’s spirit of tenacity and resolution’

Local party chief says training ‘will instil in staff the army’s spirit of tenacity and resolution’