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The exact number and percentage of women who serve in armed forces China, but say the number of women in combat units has increased. Last time I noticed the girls on the crew of the aircraft carrier Liaoning, they have cabins there that are more trumps than the guys!
In China, women have served in the military since the beginning of the People's Liberation Army. The PLA serves primarily in low-risk positions, such as communications and health care. The first female pilots appeared in transport aviation 1952.
In 1995, the first batch of female Marines graduated from the South China Navy. Two years ago, 16 women took the final fighter pilot test. And last year, a woman from Jiangsu province became the first captain in the PLA Navy to safely pilot a 14,000-ton hospital ship.
China is among the countries with the highest number of female pilots, according to the PLA Daily, although it did not provide numbers. The Air Force said it would train female pilots for strike aircraft and bombers.
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In the PRC, military affairs has long been considered a purely male occupation. For centuries, women were assigned only the role of homemakers and could not think about any military career. However, since 1927, when the first partisan detachments communist "Red Army", which later became the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA), women began to be accepted into military service, which gave them the opportunity to join the Communist Party, and the presence of a party card opened up prospects for further career growth.
The expediency of accepting women into military service in China is also determined by such inherent qualities of the “weaker” sex as diligence, responsibility, discipline, perseverance and diligence in the study of military disciplines.
In addition, the decision to devote oneself to the army is influenced by socio-economic factors: high unemployment; insufficient material support; availability of social and economic benefits for military personnel, including the possibility of receiving earlier and increased pension benefits; opportunity for professional self-realization and career, etc.
Today, serving in the armed forces is considered a privilege among young people for both boys and girls.
According to the law on conscription, both men and women aged 18 to 22 years are subject to conscription for military service, while the period conscript service the same - two years. According to the Xinhua News Agency, the latter account for up to 7.5% total number PLA soldiers.
Military personnel serve both in the logistics, communications or medical services, and in ground forces ah, Air Force, Navy, PAM (people's armed militia), people's militia and troops special purpose. At the same time, the “weaker” sex is recruited not only as translators and medical personnel, but also as radar operators, combat information and control systems, etc.
According to the Xinhua News Agency, women make up up to 7.5% of the PLA's total military personnel. Today, China is one of the countries with the highest number of female military personnel.
Thus, female pilots first appeared in transport aviation in 1952. On March 8 of the same year, a group with this composition made the first demonstration flight over Tiananmen Square in Beijing. Subsequently, the pilots participated in research test flights, liquidation of consequences emergency situations and air parades.
Since the 2000s, the Chinese Air Force began training female pilots for army aviation. Thus, in 2009, the first group of female pilots of the Jianhong-7 fighter-bomber was formed. The girls graduated from the PLA Air Force Flight Institute with the rank of Air Force Lieutenant.
In 1991, women military personnel first began serving in the Navy on one of the ships of the Southern Fleet, and in 2002 they took part in a trip around the world. Today, the “weaker” sex is included in the units Marine Corps, crews of both combat and auxiliary ships, where the cabins for it are different increased level comfort.
According to Chinese media, women have also served in the ranks of special forces since 1995. The PRC leadership made this decision in 1979, based on the experience of the war in Vietnam, where Chinese units, staffed with such a composition, showed courage, heroism and diligence in carrying out the assigned tasks.
In 2013, the PLA formed its first all-female special forces unit. The training program for its personnel involves acquiring skills in handling small arms, driving a car, performing parachute jumps, mastering the basics of rock climbing. In addition, they are taught methods of self-defense and hand-to-hand combat, terrain orientation.
Selection for the new women's unit was carried out in 12 Chinese provinces. Candidates must have higher education, good physical training, they also had to pass an interview. Despite quite short period existence, these units have very high level training and can effectively solve any assigned tasks.
In 2009, a separate women's battalion people's militia"Iron Roses" consisting of about 350 people took part in a military parade to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China. For the first time, a female militia crew participated in the parade on the occasion of the founding of the People's Republic of China in 1958.
Thus, the military-political leadership of the PRC, paying attention to the development of the PLA, attaches serious importance to its recruitment of female military personnel. This helps to increase the country's defense capability and increase the professionalism of the national armed forces, as well as strengthen the morale of their personnel in the interests of maintaining the stability of the internal situation and countering external and internal threats.
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2. Israeli military forces during training at a military base in southern Israel on February 12, 2007. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
3. Israeli platoon leader Rachel Levanta undergoes a combat fitness test at a sports center near Netanya on February 22, 2007. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
4. Special military training Police officers with men during a training session in Yinchuan, northwest China's Ningxia Hui Province, May 28, 2007. REUTERS/China Daily
Women members of the Philippine National Police show off their skills during a demonstration at police headquarters in Taguig, south of Manila on October 30, 2007. REUTERS/Romeo Ranoco
6. Women American soldiers walk along the beach of Mogadishu with weapons, July 11, 1993. REUTERS/Dan Eldon
7. A policeman loads a pistol during a shooting competition among female police officers on the occasion of the upcoming International women's day in the Russian city of Stavropol, March 5, 2008. REUTERS/Eduard Korniyenko
8. Palestinian military women during a military show in Saladin, near Damascus July 15, 2010. REUTERS/ Khaled al-Hariri
9. North Korean female soldiers on the banks of the Yalu River near the North Korean city of Sinuiju, July 27, 2010. REUTERS / Jacky Chen
11. Female soldiers help each other apply lipstick before a military parade in Beijing, July 29, 2010. REUTERS / Jason Lee
Women soldiers dressed in traditional clothing during a military parade in Mexico City on September 16, 2010. Tens of thousands of Mexicans flocked to the streets to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Mexico's fight for independence from Spain. REUTERS/Eliana Aponte
14. Women soldiers of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) ground forces march in Tiananmen Square during a mass parade to mark the 60th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). People's Republic China in Beijing October 1, 2009. REUTERS/David Lewis
15. Women soldiers from Democratic Republic Congo in the capital Kinshasa, February 18, 2006. REUTERS/David Lewis
16. An Islamist rebel woman raises a weapon outside a stadium in Mogadishu, Ethiopia, January 14, 2009. REUTERS/Ismail Taxta
17. A soldier from the honor guard looks back as St. Lucia's Prime Minister Stephenson King is officially welcomed into Havana on January 7, 2010. REUTERS/Enrique De La Osa
20. Croatian military during shooting in snowy conditions at a military base near Zagreb on January 31, 2003. The four women are members of a Croatian army unit who will go to Afghanistan in February as part of the German unit of the NATO mission. . REUTERS/Nikola Solic
21. Residents of Baghdad pass by a female American soldier on patrol in shopping arcades, May 26, 2008. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen
22. A government soldier carries a baby on his back in eastern Congo on January 26, 2009. REUTERS/Alissa Everett
23. Female cadet corps marches at a military school in Bogota March 4, 2009. REUTERS/John Vizcaino
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