100,000 Females in Military, China Says
<i> Reuters</i>
HONG KONG —
China has the world’s second-largest number of females in the military, according to the China News Service.
The semi-official agency, monitored here, said the Beijing Statistics Bureau reported that more than 100,000 women are serving in China’s armed forces, 80,000 of them in technical, communications, hygiene and logistics duties.
It said the United States has about 220,000 female soldiers.
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