Article 3 of China's military service law stipulates: "China people and China citizens, regardless of nationality, race, occupation, family background, religious belief and education level, have the obligation to perform military service in accordance with the provisions of this law." As college students, they also have the obligation to perform military service obligations. In the past, due to China's rich military resources, a large number of high school graduates or young recruits with equivalent education met the needs of conscription work at that time. Therefore, for a long time, except for a few directly recruited officers or civilian cadres, most college students in our country have not fulfilled their military service obligations. With the development of education in China, the enrollment scale of colleges and universities is expanding, and the number of college students is increasing year by year, especially some private colleges and universities are also included in the national enrollment plan. In this way, more and more school-age young people can enter universities, and the number of high school graduates who fail to pass the exam is relatively reduced. In Shanghai, a metropolis with a high admission rate of college entrance examination, the number of high school students available for recruitment is small, which has a certain impact on the completion of the recruitment task. In view of this situation, some college students are recruited to perform military service obligations, which broadens the scope of recruiting new recruits and includes more aspiring young people who are determined to devote themselves to national defense. College students generally have a strong sense of patriotism and national defense, and many of them have long had the ambition to join the army and serve the motherland with pens; At the same time, recruiting college students into the army according to law can make them understand the army earlier and receive systematic national defense education, which will have a far-reaching impact on the national defense awareness of college students and even the whole people. In the long run, recruiting college students to join the army is an inevitable trend of China's economic development and army building.
Second, recruiting college students into the army is the realistic need of our army's modernization.
Defending national security and safeguarding the reunification of the motherland is the fundamental purpose of our army. The strategic policy of our army in the new period is to win local wars under modern high-tech conditions. Therefore, we must realize two changes, that is, from intensive to scientific and technological, and from quantitative scale to quality and efficiency. The core is to fight against technology. Then, to realize the two transformations and ensure victory, the key lies in talents. Where do talents come from? Only relying on military academies to train talents can no longer meet the needs of level and quantity. Recruiting students from local colleges and universities is of great benefit to promoting national defense modernization. Similarly, when a college student soldier and a high school student soldier go to a military academy for training, the knowledge of the college student soldier must be wider than that of the high school student soldier, so as to master military knowledge and skills faster and deeper. The trained cadres have a high knowledge structure and play a greater role in the army. At present, the cultural structure of officers and men in our army is roughly 1/3, with college education or above, nearly two-thirds of them are high school or equivalent to high school culture, and some are junior high school culture. This is far from the cultural structure of military officers and soldiers in many foreign countries, with 2/3 being junior college or above and 1/3 being high school culture. At present, our army is gradually strengthening quality construction and strengthening the army through science and technology. With the development of military modernization, a large number of new weapons and equipment units need not only high-quality officers, but also soldiers with higher cultural quality to operate and maintain. Therefore, it is of great significance to recruit a certain number of college students into the army to optimize the cultural structure of the army, meet the needs of knowledge-intensive and advanced technology in the army, accelerate the strengthening of the army through science and technology, and take the road of elite soldiers.
Third, recruiting college students into the army is the need to realize personal growth and progress.
The army is a big school and the barracks are a melting pot. With the education and training of the army, ordinary young students will also become the pillars of the country. By studying military works and receiving revolutionary education, their theoretical level and working ability will have a qualitative leap, and their tenacious style and perseverance in the army will benefit them for life. A college soldier with outstanding psychological endurance and quick adaptability has good psychological quality, many social practices and can give full play to his potential. The strict discipline, team consciousness and hard-working spirit of the army can all exercise and improve themselves. The army is a university with a good environment and cultural atmosphere for the growth of talents. The new military talents who grow up in the army refer to talents with skills integration, multi-post experience and compound quality. The army is a melting pot, and retired military cadres are one of the important sources of local talents. People's pursuit is material on the one hand and spiritual on the other. Recruiting college students to aim at future life goals can cultivate their creativity and innovation, keep pace with the times, study hard and have the courage to create a first-class mental state in the army. Can cultivate a down-to-earth, based on their own duties, studious, conscientious work attitude, even in the future whether in the army or local work will benefit a lot. Joining the army is not only an exercise, but also a good opportunity to receive education on life and world outlook. College students join the army with pens, devote themselves to national defense, and join the army with enthusiasm and ambition. It is a social practice for college students in advance to experience the life of the army, enrich their life experience, hone their will, cultivate the quality of hard work and cultivate a resolute, rigorous and meticulous work style. This will definitely play a very positive role for college students to become mature in society and face the difficulties in real life objectively.
In short, for college students, joining the army as a soldier is to fulfill their civic obligations, and the other is to enrich their life experience, get edified and exercised in the special melting pot of the army, and constantly improve their comprehensive quality.