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SPEECH AT THE NATIONAL EXAMINATIONS
HELD IN THE PLA MILITARY ACADEMY

April 25, 1954

Comrades,
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The first group of students in the Combined Arms Department
and the Intelligence Department of the Military Academy of the
Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will soon graduate after
three years and four months of hard studies. According to the
Academy’s reports, you have an average grade of 4 or above in all
your tests and examinations and in the national examinations on
politics and scenario. 301 This shows that you have done well. On
behalf of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council of the Central
People’s Government, I congratulate you on your achievements. I
hope you will also do well in the national examinations on military
theory.
In the three years and more since its founding, the Military Acade-
my has trained a group of cadres with advanced knowledge in military
science. This is a major contribution to the building of a modern,
regularized army. It has been achieved under the direct leadership
of the People’s Revolutionary Military Council and through the con-
certed efforts of the Academy’s staff in charge of training, political
work, material supplies and administrative affairs as well as through
the efforts of the students and, particularly, through the generous
help of the military scientists. I would like to express our thanks to
all of you.

In late March 1954, the People’s Revolutionary Military Council of the Cen-
tral People’s Government set up a national examination committee, with Comrade
Zhu De as chairman, to check on the performance of the first group of students
graduating from the Combined Arms Department and the Intelligence Department of
the PLA Military Academy. Here is the text of his speech to the students at the
national examinations.
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