CWU Holds 2015 Ex-military Students Symposium

On October 13, China Women's University (CWU) held the third national defense education symposium for students who are ex-military in CWU.

Ex-military students, members from the Ex-service Students' Association and the National Defense Education Association attended the event. Deputy director of the National Defense Education Office (NDEO) presided over the symposium.

During the meeting, director of the Student Financial Assistance Management Center and deputy director of the NDEO delivered speeches.

They discussed the preferential treatment policies for ex-service students, especially the new regulations, and detailed the work-flow of the tuition waiver, settling, and scholarship evaluation. Ex-service students spoke about their lives in Jiangxi armed police force, the general logistics department and other armed services, and shared their experiences and personal growth.

Former ex-military students shared their experience of returning to school, encouraged new ex-military students to actively adjust their mentality, and blend into the campus as soon as possible. As a special group on campus, they said they should insist on their good habits and qualities developed in the army, realize the importance of learning and prepare for new academic challenges. 

They will play a positive role on campus, influence and drive other students with their good examples and practical action. Through the platform of the Ex-service Students' Association, the new students will strive to combine the "four-self" spirits (self-respect, self-confidence, self-reliance and self-strengthening) with the "qualities of fearing no hardship, accumulating positive energy, and passing new hope", said organizers.

(Source: China Women's University/Translated and edited by Women of China)