The PRC'S National Defense University (NDU) is a subordinate organization of Central Military Commission (CMC). This university is the PLA highest military educational unit. The main mission is to cultivate high-ranking commanders, senior staff officers, and military-theory researchers of the PLA. The NDU also serves as a consulting think tank for the CMC and the Services' Headquarters. Currently, there are more than 95% of PLA commanders in the corpslevel graduated from the NDU. In addition to that, there are more than 2,000 middle-to-high ranking officials, and more than 30 leading bureaucrats at the provincial and ministerial levels receiving training in this university every year. The NDU is an important military institue for cultivating top-brass PLA. The ROC military should pay a close eye to the current situation and future development of PLA'S NDU.