LHASA, Aug. 31 (Xinhuanet) -- Units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) stationed in the Tibet Autonomous Region have granted 13 ethnic Tibetan officers the rank of major general and lieutenant general.

    Over the past four decades, hundreds of Tibetans serving in PLA and PAP units in Tibet have become leading officers at regiment or higher levels, according to military sources.

    A number of Tibetan officers have also become government leaders at the county level and above.

    Special efforts have been made to train and promote more Tibetan officers. Thus far, 81.1 percent of these Tibetan officers are graduates of higher learning institutions. Enditem