Dinesh Chandra

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- An article by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, on strengthening education on the history of the Party and the military and their glorious traditions among officers and soldiers of the armed forces to ensure their following of the CPC's leadership will be published. The article by Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, will be published on Sunday in this year's 15th issue of the Qiushi Journal, a flagship magazine of the CPC Central Committee. Firmly following the Party's leadership is the fundamental reason why the People's Liberation Army triumphed over all kinds of trials and tribulations, and advanced from victory to victory, Xi said in the article. The troops should be armed with the thought on socialism with Chinese characteristics for a new era and the Party's strategy on strengthening military capabilities for the new era, the article sai

With the servicemen of the Russian military contingent from the formations and military units of the Eastern Military District, preparations have started for the exercise Zapad/Interaction-2021, jointly with the units of the People's Liberation Army of China (PLA). The participants of the joint Chinese-Russian exercise from the Russian side include military personnel of the operational-tactical aviation detachment, whose pilots also made a multi-hour flight over a distance of more than 1.5 thousand kilometers from the point of permanent deployment on multi-purpose Su-30SM fighters. Also, the personnel of the motorized rifle unit deployed in the Transbaikal territory, as well as special forces units and the control apparatus, will take part in the upcoming exercises. The forces of the Chinese side participating in the exercise consist of the PLA Land and Air Forces. Currently, the personnel of the Russian group of EMD troops in the course of daily activities takes part in combat

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- A new law on protecting military personnel's status, rights, and interests will come into effect on Sunday, which marks China's Army Day. The law was adopted on June 10 and stipulates the basic treatment enjoyed by military personnel regarding salaries, housing, healthcare services, insurance, vacations, education, and others. It also laid down how families of martyrs should receive preferential treatment for matters including employment and their children's education. In addition, starting from Sunday, military personnel left with disabilities will be given an average of a 10-percent increase in their pensions under the government's new scheme. Starting from August, a new judicial interpretation will also take effect, banning the misuse of facial recognition at business or public premises. According to the new document, misusing the technology of facial recognition, including recognizing or analyzing facial data, could constitute an in

BEIJING, July 31 (Xinhua) -- Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee, has called for resolute will and determination to work hard in a down-to-earth way to achieve the goals set for the centenary of the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Xi, also Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Friday when addressing a group study session of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/31/content_10069087.htm

August 1 is China's Army Day. Read some highlights of President Xi Jinping's quotes about the people's armed forces. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/31/content_10069091.htm

Soldiers of the First Company of the PLA's 83rd Army Group train in a teamwork drill. [Photo by JIANG DONGPO/FOR CHINA DAILY] Troops engage in joint-operation drills following directions from top leader Combat forces of the People's Liberation Army have continued to hone their operational preparedness and skills to achieve President Xi Jinping's goal of making the PLA stronger, more integrated and more flexible to enhance its ability to win modern wars. A land-attack cruise missile brigade of the PLA Rocket Force stationed in South China organized a combat-readiness exercise this month in which troops were ordered to deal with opponent's harassing attacks, aircraft reconnaissance and electronic jamming. Soldiers were also told to prepare and camouflage the launch positions, command outpost and communication devices under a nuclear contamination scenario. They rapidly handled the hazards, readied their hardware and repaired "damaged" equipment. Commander

The first echelon’s 205 members of the 20th Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon left from Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province for Lebanon on July 28, 2021. (Photo by Min Ning/PLA Daily) KUNMING, July 30 -- The first echelon’s 205 members of the 20th Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon left from Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province for Lebanon on July 28. They will rotate the 19th contingent stationed in southern Lebanon and carry out a one-year peacekeeping mission. The contingent has a total of 410 members, consisting of a 180-member multi-role engineering detachment, a 200-member construction detachment, and a 30-member medical detachment. Those peacekeepers come from the PLA’s 74th Group Army, 75th Group Army, and the Guilin Joint Logistic Support Center. They would be responsible for tasks of demining and detonation, construction and maintenance, health care and pandemic prevention, humanitarian rescue and others. After receiving the task in May 20

BEIJING, July 30 (Xinhua) -- The Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee held a meeting on Friday to study and analyze current economic circumstances and make plans for related work for the second half of 2021. The meeting was chaired by Xi Jinping, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee. Since the beginning of this year, China has coordinated COVID-19 prevention and control with economic and social development, effectively implemented macro policies, and ensured sustained recovery and improvement in its economy, said the meeting. The country has also actively advanced scientific and technological self-reliance, enhanced reform and opening-up, effectively guaranteed people's livelihood, achieved new results in high-quality development, and maintained overall social stability. The meeting noted that the global COVID-19 situation is still evolving and Chinese economy faces an increasingly complex and grave external environment. The domest

A China Coast Guard ship on a fisheries law enforcement mission in the North Pacific Ocean sets sail from Shanghai, east China, on July 30, 2021. Two coast guard ships dispatched by the China Coast Guard (CCG) departed from Shanghai on Friday for the North Pacific Ocean to enforce fisheries law. The two vessels will cruise on the high seas of the North Pacific Ocean during a 31-day patrol, according to the CCG. (Xinhua) SHANGHAI, July 30 (Xinhua) -- Two coast guard ships dispatched by the China Coast Guard (CCG) departed from Shanghai on Friday for the North Pacific Ocean to enforce fisheries law. The two vessels will cruise on the high seas of the North Pacific Ocean during a 31-day patrol, according to the CCG. The mission aims to strengthen supervision over the fishing boats operating on the seas of the North Pacific Ocean, in accordance with relevant United Nations General Assembly resolution and the Convention on the Conservation and Management of High Seas Fisheries Resource

By Shao Longfei, Wang Di and Wang Jingyi BEIJING, July 30 -- The clinical research data of the recombinant COVID-19 vaccine (Adenovirus Type 5 Vector) in inhalation form developed by Chinese military medical scientist Chen Wei and her team has been published on the famous international academic journal The Lancet Infectious Diseases on July 26. It is also the world's first publication of the clinical trial results on mucosal immunity of COVID-19 vaccines. The results showed that the vaccine is safe and has no adverse reactions caused by intramuscular injection. During vaccination, the recipient only needs to inhale to obtain triple protection of mucosal immunity, cellular immunity and humoral immunity. The dosage required to obtain the same level of cellular immune response is only 1/5 of that for intramuscular injection. In addition, high levels of neutralizing antibodies can be produced if nebulized inhalation is used to boost immunity after intramuscular injection. Compared

KUNMING, July 30 -- The first echelon’s 205 members of the 20th Chinese peacekeeping force to Lebanon left from Kunming in southwest China's Yunnan Province for Lebanon on July 28. They will rotate the 19th contingent stationed in southern Lebanon and carry out a one-year peacekeeping mission. The contingent has a total of 410 members, consisting of a 180-member multi-role engineering detachment, a 200-member construction detachment, and a 30-member medical detachment. Those peacekeepers come from the PLA’s 74th Group Army, 75th Group Army, and the Guilin Joint Logistic Support Center. They would be responsible for tasks of demining and detonation, construction and maintenance, health care and pandemic prevention, humanitarian rescue and others. After receiving the task in May 2021, the peacekeeping members have carried out closed intensive training on subjects such as demining and detonation, emergency defense, and trauma treatment, as well as realistic combat drills simulating

BEIJING, July 29 -- According to the consensus reached by the two countries, the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation will participate in the exercise ZAPAD/INTERACTION-2021 to be held in China in early and mid-August, said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson for China’s Ministry of National Defense (MND), at a regular press conference of the MND on Thursday. The exercise will be held at the combined-arms tactical training base of the PLA Army in Qingtongxia City of West China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, in the theme of jointly safeguarding regional security and stability. The two sides will establish a joint command. The Chinese participating troops mainly come from the PLA Western Theater Command, while the Russian participating troops from its Eastern Military District. A total of more than 10,000 troops will be dispatched by the two sides, along with multiple types of aircraft, artillery and armored equipment. The two sides’ participating troops will be mixed into team

BEIJING, July 29 – “Speak the truth, and stop the lies,” said Senior colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson for the Chinese Defense Ministry, at a regular press conference on Thursday when responding to a recent US Congressional Research Service (CRS) report claiming that the Chinese Navy posed a major challenge to the US Navy, the first of its kind since the end of the Cold War. Snr. Col. Wu stated that all along, the Chinese military has strived to provide more public security products to the international community. This is a fact obvious to the international community. “The PLA Navy has dispatched naval vessels to the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somalia to carry out regular escort operations, and actively participated in humanitarian rescue operations such as assisting Indonesia in salvaging the submarine wreckage. And the PLA Navy’s hospital ship Peace Ark has performed multiple medical rescue missions overseas,” Wu cited several examples. He pointed out that the US hypes up the s

BEIJING, July 29 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping and his Sierra Leonean counterpart Julius Maada Bio on Thursday exchanged messages of congratulations on the 50th anniversary of the establishment of diplomatic relations between the two countries. In the message, Xi pointed out that since the establishment of diplomatic relations between China and Sierra Leone half a century ago, no matter how the international situation changes, the two countries have always understood and supported each other on issues involving each other's core interests and major concerns, and have carried out fruitful cooperation in the fields of economy and people's livelihood. In the face of the severe challenge of the COVID-19 epidemic, the people of China and Sierra Leone have helped each other and fought the epidemic side by side, showing the brotherhood of sharing weal and woe, Xi said. Xi stressed that he attaches great importance to the development of the China-Sierra Leone relations an

BEIJING, July 29 -- "The US is the biggest threat to global network security," said Senior Colonel Wu Qian, a spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense (MND), at a regular press conference of the MND on July 29. Regarding the recently exposed scandal that the US National Security Agency had spied on the leaders of European allies through Danish intelligence agencies, Snr. Col. Wu reminded that relevant US agencies have carried out large-scale, organized and indiscriminate cyber theft, surveillance and attacks on foreign governments, enterprises and individuals for a long time. He stated that the facts, such as WikiLeaks, Snowden revelations, Swiss Crypto AG incident, as well as the recently exposed spying scandal, have all proven time and time again that the US is a world recognized top empire of hacking and theft of secrets. Wu also pointed that the US has spared no effort to promote the militarization of cyberspace and vigorously developed cyber offensive

BEIJING, July 29 -- The Chinese military will host three events of the International Army Games (IAG) 2021 in China from August 22 to September 4, and send troops to participate in 17 other events in Russia, Belarus, Uzbekistan and Iran, a Chinese defense spokesperson said on Thursday. Senior Colonel Wu Qian, spokesperson for the Chinese Ministry of National Defense introduced the plan at a regular press conference. China will host three events in Korla, Xinjiang Autonomous Region, namely the "Suvorov Attack", "Clear Sky" and "Safe Environment". Militaries of Russia, Belarus, Egypt, Iran, Venezuela and Vietnam will send troops to participate in the events held in China. In addition, the Chinese troops will participate in 17 events abroad, including 12 in Russia, three in Belarus, one in Uzbekistan and one in Iran. Wu stated that, this year, China will continue to host some IAG events and participate in more events in Russia and other countries in the ba

The 18th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States is held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on July 28, 2021. Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe attended and addressed the meeting. The picture shows a group photo of Wei Fenghe (4th L) and the defense ministers of the participating countries. (mod.gov.cn/Photo by Li Xiaowei) BEIJING, July 28 -- The 18th meeting of the Council of Ministers of Defense of SCO Member States was held in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, on July 28. Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe led a delegation to attend and addressed the meeting. Wei Fenghe said that over the past 20 years since the establishment of the SCO, under the promotion of the heads of SCO member states and the strong guidance of the "Shanghai spirit", defense departments of all the member states have been continuously strengthening strategic mutual trust and practical cooperation. The SCO has beco

BEIJING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- China's brand new law on the protection of the status, rights and interests of military personnel and the revised Law on Military Facilities Protection will take effect on Aug. 1, according to a press conference Wednesday. As a ground-breaking legal document, the law on the protection of the status, rights and interests of military personnel prescribes the status of military personnel through legislation for the first time, and ramps up targeted measures to protect military personnel's wellbeing, said Guo Linmao, an official with the Legislative Affairs Commission of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress (NPC). The newly-revised Law on Military Facilities Protection sets forth the principle of coordinating socio-economic development and military facilities protection, and defines the responsibility of local governments and relevant State Council bodies in protecting military facilities during socio-economic and land-use plan

KUNMING, July 28 (Xinhua) -- A new group of 205 Chinese peacekeepers headed for Lebanon on Wednesday for a yearlong peacekeeping mission. They are the first part of China's 20th batch of 410 peacekeepers to the Middle East country. The batch consists of engineering troops and medical personnel. The team has trained intensively on over 20 subjects including mine sweeping, explosive ordnance disposal, defense under emergency, and trauma treatment. The peacekeepers will be stationed in southern Lebanon. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/28/content_10068069.htm

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, July 28 (Xinhua) -- The Chinese Embassy in Brunei held a reception here on Tuesday night to celebrate the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), which falls on Aug. 1. At the reception, Li Jianzhong, defence attache of the Chinese Embassy to Brunei, said that China and Brunei enjoy a long history of exchanges and the traditional friendship between the two countries has withstood the test of time and grown even more vigorously. About 100 guests from the Brunei government, armed forces, members of the diplomatic corps, and representatives of the Chinese community in Brunei attended the event. In his speech, Li said that a friend in need is a friend indeed. Since the COVID-19 outbreak, the people of the two countries have joined hands to help each other overcome difficulties. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/28/content_10068071.htm

Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe (R) and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu pose for a group photo before their talks in Dushanbe, capital of Tajikistan on July 28, 2021. They are in Dushanbe to attend the Defense Ministers' Meeting of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Member States. (mod.gov.cn/Photo by Li Xiaowei) BEIJING, July 28 -- On July 28, Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe held talks with Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu in Dushanbe, Tajikistan. Both of them are attending the Defense Ministers' Meeting of the SCO Member States. Wei Fenghe said that despite the pandemic and unprecedented global changes, China and Russia have maintained strong and unwavering bilateral relations, becoming an important stabilizing force of the world today. In this June, the heads of state of the two countries announced the extension of the China-Russia Treaty of Good-Neighborliness and Friendly Cooperation via video link,

BEIJING, July 28 -- Recently, a rescue unit of the PLA Rocket Force deployed large power generation vehicles, large water tankers and communication equipment to help the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in flood-hit Zhengzhou City in central China’s Henan Province restore its power supply, water supply and internal communication, in a bid to accept patients and provide medical service as soon as possible.   source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/28/content_10067980.htm

UNITED NATIONS, July 27 (Xinhua) -- A Chinese envoy said on Tuesday that China stands ready to play a positive role in building peace in Sudan. "China stands ready to work with the rest of the international community in a continuous effort to play a positive role in building peace in Sudan," Dai Bing, charge d'affaires of China's permanent mission to the United Nations, told the Security Council meeting on the drawdown and closure of the United Nations-African Union Mission in Darfur (UNAMID), as requested in Resolution 2559. Since 2007, China has been engaged in UNAMID as one of the first countries to contribute peacekeepers to the mission, said Dai. "In the past 13 years, around 5,000 Chinese peacekeepers have actively performed their duties. Two peacekeepers paid the ultimate price for peace and stability in Darfur." Noting that since its inception, UNAMID has played an important role in maintaining security and stability in Darfur, Sudan, the ambassad

Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon and Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe (L) pose for a group photo before their talks in Dushanbe on July 27, 2021. (mod.gov.cn/Photo by Li Xiaowei) BEIJING, July 27 -- Tajikistan's President Emomali Rahmon met Tuesday with the visiting Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe in Dushanbe. Rahmon said that in recent years, Tajikistan and China have seen the pragmatic and in-depth cooperation in political, economic, cultural, security and military fields. Tajikistan congratulates the Communist Party of China on its 100th founding anniversary, rejoices in China's great achievements and hopes to continuously strengthen friendly cooperation with China in various fields. Tajikistan is sincerely grateful for China's support and assistance in the fields of military and security and willing to work with China to combat the "three evil forces" of terrorism and jointly deal with new changes of

BEIRUT, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Ambassador to Lebanon Qian Minjian said on Monday that the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) constitutes a strong pillar in defending their country and will continue to maintain national dignity and safeguard regional and world peace. The ambassador's remarks came during an online reception organized by the Chinese embassy in Lebanon to celebrate the 94th anniversary of the founding of the Chinese People's Liberation Army which falls on Aug. 1. Chinese Military Attache Brigadier General Zheng Yuchong gave an overview of China's national defense policy and the functions and tasks of the Chinese military, while emphasizing that the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party is key to the rapid and steady development of the Chinese military. Deputy Chief of Staff of the Lebanese Army Brigadier General Ziad Hachem praised the great achievements of the Chinese PLA, and fully affirmed China's positive role in safeguarding world p

Soldiers of the First Company of the PLA's 83rd Army Group train in a teamwork drill. [Photo by JIANG DONGPO/FOR CHINA DAILY] A People's Liberation Army unit renowned for historic victories has vowed to uphold its loyalty to the Communist Party of China and the people by honing its combat capabilities and readiness. On the morning of June 30, a day before the centenary of the founding of CPC was celebrated, all the members of the First Company of the PLA's 83rd Army Group－fully armed and neatly arrayed－solemnly pledged the Party admission oath in front of the Party flag to celebrate the anniversary. Captain Hu Guanlei, the company's commander, said the strong leadership of the Party had led generations of the company's soldiers to victory in hundreds of battles, so they celebrated the Party's centenary militarily. "It is also to make all members of the company remember the loyalty and fighting qualities instilled in our blood," he said. The compa

ZHENGZHOU, July 27 -- As of 5 p.m. on July 25, the PLA Central Theater Command has dispatched a total of 67 rescue batches to the flood-stricken areas in Henan, central China. More than 8,600 officers and soldiers of the PLA and Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) Force, together with more than 11,000 militia and reserve personnel, have participated in the disaster rescue. With more than 1,300 vehicles and equipment and 217 rafts, they will continue to carry out rescue operations and reconstruction tasks in many places in Henan. Several task forces rushed to the rescue after a dangerous situation occurred in the Xuwangzhao Village Section and Guqiao Village Section along the Shuangji River in Changge City. The two embankments were closed by the afternoon of July 25 and officers and soldiers are currently strengthening the embankment. A brigade assigned to the 83rd Group Army dispatched 597 officers and soldiers in three groups to carry out the tasks of transferring the masses and

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- Chinese President Xi Jinping on Monday sent a congratulatory message to Nguyen Xuan Phuc on his re-election as Vietnam's president. In his message, Xi said that China and Vietnam are socialist neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, and enjoy profound traditional friendship and extensive common interests. In the face of transformations rarely seen in a century and the once-in-a-century COVID-19 pandemic, the two sides have sticked to their shared ideals and convictions, acted on the original aspiration of solidarity and friendship, and taken concrete actions to enrich and update their comprehensive strategic cooperation. Xi noted that since the beginning of this year, the 13th National Congress of the Communist Party of Vietnam has been successfully held and the Communist Party of China has celebrated its centenary, saying that the two parties and the two countries' cause of national development have entered a crucial stage of inheriting the pa

BEIJING, July 26 (Xinhua) -- China's Ministry of Veterans Affairs (MVA) on Monday said the remains of more Chinese soldiers killed in the 1950-53 Korean War will be returned to the country from the Republic of Korea (ROK) on Sept. 2. It will be the eighth batch of martyrs' remains returned since 2014, following a handover agreement signed by the two countries. Before the repatriation, a ceremony will be held in the ROK on Sept. 1, according to the handover schedule agreed during a meeting between officials of the two countries on Monday. The two countries agreed to strengthen cooperation and exchanges for searching and identifying the Chinese soldiers' remains in the ROK, the ministry said. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/26/content_10067224.htm

The visiting Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe holds talks with Mongolian Defense Minister Gursed Saikhanbayar in Ulan Bator on July 26, 2021. Before their talks, Gursed Saikhanbayar holds a welcome ceremony for Wei Fenghe and accompanies Wei to review the guard of honor of the Mongolian armed forces. (mod.gov.cn/Photo by Li Xiaowei) BEIJING, July 26 -- Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe held talks with Mongolian Defense Minister Gursed Saikhanbayar in Ulaanbaatar on July 26. Wei Fenghe said that China and Mongolia are friendly neighbors linked by mountains and rivers, and the building of community with a shared future for the two countries has achieved continuous and concrete progress. Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, the two countries stood by and helped each other, overcame difficulties together, setting a model of anti-pandemic cooperation between neighboring countries and injecting positive energy into the

(Video by Wang Juwei, Han Song, Wang Fan, and Wang Shuai) By Ji Jiaqi, Li Xiaoyue, Ma Shuaiwei and Li Zewen BEIJING, July 26 -- An engineering and chemical defense brigade of the army under the PLA Central Theater Command, together with the armed police force and the professional rescuers from China Aneng Group, a construction engineering company, have been busy using mechanical and emergency pontoons to block the dike breach in the Weihe River, Hebi City, central China's Henan Province since July 24. The rescue work has been going on for more than 40 hours at press time. On July 23, the rescuers, with the help of the powered pontoon bridge, had built two ferrying rafts, 40 meters long and 8 meters wide for each with a carriage way of 5 meters wide and a total carrying capacity of up to 65 tons. More than 1,400 stranded residents were successfully evacuated within 4 hours. It is learned that the powered pontoon bridge involved in the rescue is one of the most advanced water r

HANGZHOU, July 26 – This year’s sixth typhoon In-Fa, which formed in July 18, made landfall at Putuo District, Zhoushan City in east China’s Zhejiang Province, at around 12:30 on July 25. Military members, militia and reserve forces stationed in Zhejiang quickly join typhoon emergency rescues in the frontlines. After the typhoon landed, the logistic support troops under the PLA Eastern Theater Command released information on the time and location of the typhoon landfall, wind force, rain, and flood conditions in a timely manner to provide information support for the Theater's joint command center to make decisions and for troops to carry out emergency rescues. On the afternoon of July 24, a brigade of the PLA 72nd Group Army rushed to Xiangshan County, Ningbo City to seal breached levees and urgently transferred the elderly in the local nursing home to a safe place. A vehicle transport battalion and a warehouse of the naval aviation with the PLA Eastern Theater Command engaged

The Beiwan area in China’s Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, located on the north bank of the Irtysh River and bordered by Kazakhstan, is one of the world’s four areas mostly troubled with swarms of mosquitoes. From June to August every year, mosquitoes and midges are infesting the Irtysh River in a radius of a hundred miles. According to the tests of the epidemic prevention department, there are up to 1,700 mosquitoes and 3,500 midges per cubic meter during the peak period, and you can kill more than 100 mosquitoes in one slap. “Holding meetings in mosquito nets, and patrolling in cotton-padded jackets in summer” is the daily routine of the border defense company assigned to the PLA Xinjiang Military Command stationed in Beiwan area. This year, they have received new-style anti-mosquito suits of the seventh generation. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/26/content_10067086.htm

ZHENGZHOU, July 24 – The Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in Zhengzhou was seriously deluged during the heavy rainstorm battering the capital city of Central China’s Henan province from 18th to 21st of July. The once busy hospital square now turned into a vast pond of 1.5 meters deep, and the 19-floor surgery building was like an island in the sea. Nearly 5,000 persons including medical staff and patients were trapped in the building and in an urgency for rescue. Under the unified command of the disaster relief front commanding post of the PLA Central Theater Command, crack troops from the Rocket Force, the 83rd Group Army, the Joint Logistic Support Force, the Henan Provincial Military Command and the first mobile corps under the Chinese People's Armed Police (PAP) Force, advanced towards the Fuwai Hospital from different directions on July 21. The evacuation of trapped patients began from 6 a.m. on July 22, in batches, and most of the patients were transferred

XINXIANG, July 23 -- At 17:00 on July 23, three Z-20 helicopters dispatched by an airborne assault brigade of the 83rd Group Army under the PLA Central Theater Command took off upon receiving order and flied to Huixian County, Xinxiang City in northern Henan province. In the airspace of two towns in Huixian County, the three helicopters dropped multiple kinds of rescue materials and equipment to support the anti-flood efforts of the local people. source http://eng.chinamil.com.cn/view/2021-07/24/content_10066330.htm

LHASA, July 23 (Xinhua) -- Chinese leader Xi Jinping has stressed fully implementing the guidelines of the Communist Party of China (CPC) for governing Tibet in a new era and writing a new chapter of lasting stability and high-quality development for the plateau region. Xi, general secretary of the CPC Central Committee, Chinese president and chairman of the Central Military Commission, visited the Tibet Autonomous Region from Wednesday to Friday for the 70th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation, the first time in the history of the Party and the country. Xi extended congratulations to the 70th anniversary of Tibet's peaceful liberation, visited officials and ordinary people of various ethnic groups and conveyed the CPC Central Committee's care to them. Xi said over the past 70 years Tibet has made historic strides in the social system and realized full economic and social development, with people's living standards significantly improved. "It has been pr

The screenshot is a China Mobile message received by a resident of Mihe Town, Gongyi City, Henan Province on the evening of July 21. The message reminds residents that the Wing Loong-2H UAV is now above the town and can temporarily resume communication for five hours so that they can report their situation and contact family members as soon as possible. BEIJING, July 23 -- Wing Loong-2H, China's homemade emergency relief unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), has built an aerial emergency communication platform for residents in the disaster-stricken areas in Henan Province, central China. Recently, central China’s Henan Province was hit by large-scale extreme rainfalls, and communications in many villages in Mihe Town, Gongyi City were cut off. China’s Ministry of Emergency Management (MEM) urgently dispatched the Wing Loong-2H UAV to build an aerial mobile base station. According to the Aviation Industry Corporation of China (AVIC), the developer of Wing Loong-2H, the UAV reached the

Rescuers help a petient to evacuate near the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in Zhongmu County of Zhengzhou, central China's Henan Province, July 22, 2021. The natural disaster has inflicted damage on many hospitals in Henan, with patients and medical staff stuck inside, waiting to be evacuated, including the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital in the county of Zhongmu, under the jurisdiction of Zhengzhou, the provincial capital. Days of rainstorms have caused severe flooding in the hospital. On Thursday morning, rescuers started transporting patients, their family members and medical staff elsewhere. About 5,000 people have been evacuated so far. (Xinhua/Cai Yang) ZHENGZHOU, July 22 (Xinhua) -- Outside the Fuwai Central China Cardiovascular Hospital, the ambulances and rescue vehicles are mostly submerged in floodwater, leaving only their tops visible. At the entrance and inside the hospital registration hall, rescuers in yellow life vests use rafts to tran