Cleaner, smarter, big data: the PLA’s bet on ‘sunshine’ military recruitment

Cleaner, smarter, big data: the PLA’s bet on ‘sunshine’ military recruitment

The Chinese military is mining big data to get better recruits and stamp out corruption in the march towards its centenary next year. As part of an overhaul called “end-to-end sunshine” recruitment, the People’s Liberation Army has been commanded to use data-driven systems across the the enlistment process to build a military “focused on war readiness”. The orders came this month from the general offices of the Central Military Commission and St…