A Chinese student has gained notoriety for telling the country's army that he no longer wants to serve, with a statement on the People Liberation Army's English language website detailing the punishment meted out to him
Hong Kong With around 2 million people in China's armed forces, you might think the story of one person who couldn't take the rigors of military life wouldn't warrant national attention.
But that wasn't the case last week for Zhang Moukang, a university student from the country's southern Hainan province.A story posted on the People Liberation Army's English language website details the punishment meted out to Zhang after he told the PLA he no longer wanted to serve.
China shows off military in anniversary parade 02:30Ni added that"this is an example of some of the tensions that the PLA faces. On the one side it needs to project a image, a good image, and on the other side it has needs to deter what it considers to be bad behavior and insubordination.
Huge new Chinese warship launches 00:35A report from the state-run Xinhua news agency in July said the PLA preferred to recruit college students and graduates.But Ni says the hardships of military life hit even those more educated recruits."I think it's a fairly tough environment, potentially away from your family and friends, doing a range of jobs that are at least potentially physically demanding, if not dangerous.
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