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SnoopBot · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 740 Location: USA

These are typical responses for Middle-School students trying to be funny.

They are not taking the whole situation seriously and making a joke about it.

This is the typical responses you will get from a Sunday English cram job when the kids rather be doing something fun instead of learning English. Often, because their parents told them they must go.

vikuk · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 1842

Ping Jing · Posted: Sat Sep 15, 2007 1:56 pm Post subject:

Vikuk typed - \\\"No the front line is left to that same class of folk who also - hammer all day long on concrete with their hammers (the national sound of China), collect empty bottles, look after parked bikes, etc etc - the cheap countryside worker. (Did you know the lowest rank Chinese squaddy/grunt is paid no wage (the cannon fodder) - but just gets free food - and the chance of getting paid employment with a state company after they leave the service. A few months ago the food allowance went up so they could get fresh eggs twice week instead of once. Such is the poverty in some provinces that many want to volunteer for the PLA.) \\\"

Beautiful. Now I know why the security guards scowl at me.

God Bless.

SnoopBot · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 740 Location: USA

Slightly off OP, but speaking of the PLA, massive riots have been popping up around major cities involving down-sized former PLA soldiers.

http://www.wtopnews.com/?nid=105&sid=1244691

I'm sure these links are blocked in China.

therock · Joined: 31 Jul 2005 Posts: 1266 Location: China

SnoopBot · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 740 Location: USA

vikuk · Joined: 23 May 2007 Posts: 1842

This is also not a well know fact for non-Chinese - but well advertised within the country -

The no.1 duty of the army is to defend the CPC (the party) and its right to rule the country!!!!!

They put this up on TV screens on those military Channels - during those propaganda interludes where they show battleships/jet fighters/ and goose-stepping grunts.

arioch36 · Joined: 21 Jan 2003 Posts: 3589

I think it was at Dave's that someone posted some really good articles on the miltary movements during Tianmen masacre, and who was fighting you.

I will have you know, our city of Zhengzhou (That's in Henan, BTW) was the first to get the special 500 man paramiltary squadrons to be used in assisting local police with such unruly local displays against the Chinese Harmonious Society

SnoopBot · Joined: 21 Jun 2007 Posts: 740 Location: USA

Here is the latest, sorry to be off OP I only post this as many of you in China cannot read these things.

It seems to have been happening all over at different places and times.
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------------Sep 14, 6:13 AM EDT

Demobilized Soldiers Riot in China

By CHRISTOPHER BODEEN
Associated Press Writer

BEIJING (AP) -- Demobilized soldiers rioted at a retraining center in northeastern China overnight, the latest in a series of apparently coordinated protests against living conditions, a teacher and a human rights monitoring group said Friday.

About 1,000 ex-soldiers began smashing up classrooms and dormitories at the Qiqihar Railway Institute late Thursday night using beer bottles, the Hong Kong-based Information Center for Human Rights and Democracy said.

It said they then attempted to break out of the school, heading for the city train station, but were blocked by police and armed special forces. The clashes intensified when additional demobilized soldiers flocked to the school after hearing a rumor that two ex-soldiers had been killed, the center said in a statement.

In all, at least 10 people were injured and five arrested, it said, without identifying the injured as rioters or police. A teacher at the school who gave only his surname, Wang, confirmed the clashes had occurred, but said the situation was now calm and classes had resumed.

However, Wang said all the demobilized soldiers had been removed from campus, confirming the Hong Kong center's claim that all 6,000 demobilized soldiers recently placed at railway institutes in several cities had been ordered to return to their homes.

"All the retired soldiers are gone," Wang told The Associated Press by phone from the school, 650 miles northeast of Beijing.

The violence comes just over one week after about 2,000 demobilized Chinese soldiers rioted at training centers in at least three cities.

The reported protests, which authorities refused to confirm, were notable for their level of coordination, something not seen on a nationwide scale since the 1989 pro-democracy demonstrations in Beijing and several other cities.

Ex-troops were angered by run-down dormitories, bad but expensive food and a lack of study materials, according to the center and Internet reports.

China has been steadily cutting the size of its 2.3 million-member armed forces, but many of those demobilized have reportedly struggled to find jobs.

About 560,000 officers and men were due to be retired from the service this year, with panicked servicemen paying large bribes to obtain jobs in the more developed cities for fear of being sent back to their hometowns, the Hong Kong center said.