From May 8 to 14, the CDS Political Commissar Yi Shuqiang and Deputy Commandant Xu Hui led 80 participants of the 37th Defense and Strategic Studies Course and the 62nd & 63rd Advanced Command Courses to have a 6-day training in the Pudong Cadres College.
      During the training, the participants listened lectures on "probing into and practice of the socialist road with Chinese characteristics", "development of the Shanghai economic society","development strategy of the National Innovative Exemplary Zone", "to build Shanghai into an innovative centre having global influence", etc., visited building of Yangshan Deepwater Port, Shanghai Free Trade Zone, Shanghai City Planning Hall, Shanghai Zhangjiang High-tech Industry Area,etc., and toured the Shanghai Bund, Yuyuan Garden, Pedestrian Mall of Nanjing Road, and Oriental Pearl TV Tower. They had a very high opinion of Shanghai development.