BEIJING – Pakistan Military Cadets attended the 6th International CadetsWeek in China.

A total of 31 cadets from militaries academies from 11 countries includingPakistan attended the 6th International Cadets Week (ICW) held in Nanjing,East China’s Jiangsu Province.

The cadets from Pakistan, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Japan, theNetherlands, India, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey attended this year’sevent together with 73 Chinese cadets from 11 Chinese PLA academies.

The week-long event aimed to provide a platform for cadets to have moreexchanges and to learn and improve from each other was hosted by the PLAArmy Engineering University, according to China’s Defense Ministry.

ICW aimed to enhance understanding, to learn from each other, to cooperateand to create a shared future.

The purpose has never changed. The world needs to know China and itsmilitary, and the Chinese military also needs to go on the internationalstage.

These cadets live and undergo military exercises under the command of thePLA. Their training courses included gun shooting, indoor obstacle courses,field training, stimulation training of actions of the UN PeacekeepingForce and courses on Chinese traditional culture.

Most of the foreign cadets came to China for the first time and theirinitial impressions of China differed widely.