New Speacial forces pictures

How do you know?
Western media and scholars have the tendency to demonize chinese govt and chinese in general , thinking that the officers and govt leaders are a bunch of heartless warlords that push their men to their death without a care and the men are just brainless zombie-like grunts. However, contrary to most western views, the PLA do strive to provide their soldier with the best training, although somtimes training is limited by financial issues as in the cultural revolution. my brother-in-law's father served in the PLA from 1967-1982.(and no, he was not conscripted or forced to voluteer, he volunteer by his own will)He did not participate in the Sino-Soviet clash in 1969 but he did served in the Sino-Vietnamese War in 1979 and 1984. He was in the logistic corp and his squad of trucks were ambushed more than once, but he is still alive and well today, along with most of his squadmates. If the PLA was doing like you said, given a weapon and told to fight, would you think my brother-in-law's father would have made it back?

PLA has traditionally relied on Special Recon, a precursor to SOF, for frontline intelligence gathering, and dead SR is almost of no use, so training for SR should be rigorous. From this I deduce that the training for SOF will be even more rigorous and diversified than SR training.​