HK Youth Military Summer Camp opens (8)

（People's Daily Online）  08:27, July 18, 2013  

The opening ceremony of the 9th "Hong Kong Youth Military Summer Camp" was held at the San Wai Barracks of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region (HKSAR) on the morning of July 15, 2013. A total of 260 students from 143 middle schools joined the camp.

Yue Shixin, political commissar of the PLA Hong Kong Garrison, and Dongzhao Hongping, sponsor of the Hong Kong Teenager Military Summer Camp, attended and addressed the ceremony.

The military summer camp will end on July 28 for graduation. It will include military and discipline training, special lectures, artistic and athletic activities. It is expected that the students' national awareness will be enhanced through this training.

This form of "military training" has already become a memorable summer life experience for some Hong Kong youths and enhanced the communication and exchanges between the officers and men of the Hong Kong Garrison and the youths in Hong Kong.