北京8月9日电 2022年全国下半年征兵工作全面展开，今年首次将研究生毕业生及在校生青年征集年龄放宽至26周岁，征集对象仍以大学生为重点，优先批准理工类大学生和备战打仗所需技能人才入伍。
BEIJING, Aug. 9 -- China has officially started military conscription for the second half of 2022. For the first time, the ceiling age of the postgraduate and undergraduate conscripts is extended to 26. College students are the main target groups of the military conscription in the second half of 2022, and priority would be given to college students majoring in science and engineering, as well as talents with skills needed for combat readiness.
今年继续实行“一年两次征兵两次退役”，广大适龄青年踊跃报名参军。
This year, the practice of "conscription and demobilization twice a year" remains, and a large number of young people of appropriate age have signed up for the army.
以浙江省为例，下半年应征报名人数超11万，其中大学生5万，大学毕业生2.7万，兵员征集质量持续提升。浙江应征青年于其说：“最近的台海局势牵动着我们每个人的心，也让我们看到，和平需要祖国的强大实力保驾护航。我愿用我的满腔热血报效祖国，让军人这个称谓成为我一生的荣耀！”
In East China’s Zhejiang Province, the number of applicants in the second half of the year has exceeded 110,000, including 50,000 undergraduates and 27,000 graduates of universities and colleges, indicating an ever-increasing quality of soldiers recruited. "Recent situation across the Taiwan Strait has attracted attention of every Chinese. Peace is built on and ensured by the strength of the country, so I want to join the army to serve my motherland and it will be my honor for life to be a soldier," said Yu Qi, a young man from Zhejiang Province.
目前，各地征兵体检工作正在按计划有序进行。
At present, the military conscription physical examination work is proceeding in all places in an orderly manner as planned.
浙江全省90多个征兵体检站陆续开放。山东青岛市11个体检站同时开放，3000多名应征青年上站体检，大学毕业生应征比例超过90%。
More than 90 conscription physical examination stations in Zhejiang Province have opened in succession. At the municipal level, there are 11 physical examination stations opened in Qingdao City, Shandong Province, having received over 3,000 young applicants with the proportion of college graduates exceeding 90%.
