Newly recruited soldiers do push-ups during a physical competition at their dorm inJinan, east China's Shandong Province January 2, 2007. Soldiers from provinces of Shandong, Hebei, Jiangsu and Shaanxi will undergo a three-month-long military training at a military training base in Weihai in Shandong Province.

(Xinhua News Agency January 4, 2007)