The performance of PLA's procurement officers have greatly improved, said the General Armaments Department, adding that 30 of its officers are certificates holders for senior assessors in quality systems while 600 others are qualified as junior assessors and another 3 000 are intern or internal assessors.

The various armaments departments at all levels recruited graduates with Master's degrees and Bachelor's degrees from civilian universities and military engineering academies and technical personnel with Master's or higher degrees from the military equipment manufacturing industry. 90% of the PLA's armaments staff now hold Bachelor's degree while 10% are graduate students. The four headquarters/departments tried to stabilize its armaments procurement teams by increasing the percentage of senior specialized technical posts for representatives to military equipment manufacturers and making its front line personnel better paid and housed.

The headquarter/departments' policy is "no training no Job, no training no promotion". More than 70 training classes and 80 armaments quality-assessing classes were held in the past years, educating more than 270 senior cadres and more than 2 000 new military representatives and armaments procurement officers.

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