President Hu urges missile troops to improve capability

GOV.cn Sunday, November 4, 2007

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R front), also chairman of Central Military Commission (CMC), meets with delegates of the seventh congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) of the Second Artillery Force (SAF) in Beijing, Nov. 4, 2007. [Xinhua Photo] Chinese President Hu Jintao Sunday called on the Second Artillery Force (SAF), China's strategic missile troops, to improve themselves quickly and well. Hu, also chairman of Central Military Commission (CMC), made the remark when meeting with delegates of the seventh congress of Communist Party of China (CPC) of the SAF. He urged soldiers and officers of the SAF to fully grasp the essence of the 17th CPC National Congress and spare no efforts to fulfill the tasks assigned to them. The SAF has speed up its modernization process and fulfilled the tasks assigned by the Party and people very well in recent years, he said. In the future they shall work more to smooth the construction and reform so as to improve the capability, he said. Special efforts shall be made to improve the work of Party organs in the army, he said. CMC Vice Chairman Guo Boxiong and Xu Caihou were present at the meeting. The SAF, under the People's Liberation Army, was founded in 1966.

Editor: Nie Peng Source: Xinhua