Freshmen students holding daggers receive military training at Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou City, the capital of Central China’s Henan Province, Sept. 7, 2016. The university’s 129 female students are training with daggers, part of compulsory military training in China’s colleges for freshmen that includes a diverse range of programs. (Photo: China News Service/Zuo Dongchen)

Freshmen students holding daggers receive military training at Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou City, the capital of Central China’s Henan Province, Sept. 7, 2016. The university’s 129 female students are training with daggers, part of compulsory military training in China’s colleges for freshmen that includes a diverse range of programs. (Photo: China News Service/Zuo Dongchen)

Freshmen students holding daggers receive military training at Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou City, the capital of Central China’s Henan Province, Sept. 7, 2016. The university’s 129 female students are training with daggers, part of compulsory military training in China’s colleges for freshmen that includes a diverse range of programs. (Photo: China News Service/Zuo Dongchen)

Freshmen students holding daggers receive military training at Zhengzhou University in Zhengzhou City, the capital of Central China’s Henan Province, Sept. 7, 2016. The university’s 129 female students are training with daggers, part of compulsory military training in China’s colleges for freshmen that includes a diverse range of programs. (Photo: China News Service/Zuo Dongchen)