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Feb.24 (story released by China Military Power Mashup) – In early July of 2009, 62 senior military officers of the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) finished a 43-day training course and graduated from the National Diversity of Defense Technology (NUDT), a comprehensive university in Changsha, capital of central China’s Hunan Province, under the dual supervision of the Ministry of National Defense and the Ministry of Education. It is the PLA’s the hest academy in terms of science and technology. There are more than 2,000 four-year-program graduates and more than 1,000 postgraduates who finished studies this summer. Undergraduate, postgraduate and continuing education are the three basic courses to cultivate talents of the university. 

An epitome of the modernization process of Chinese Armed Forces

“The development of the university has been closely associated to every major reform of the PLA and strategic deployment of the country’s defense modernization,” said Zhang Yulin, president of the NUDT. Zhang, 51, was admitted to the Military Academy of I Engineering, the NUDT’s predecessor, 11 majoring in liquid-propellant rocket engineering in 1977. Twenty-six years later, he became the commander of China’s first space center, Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center located in north Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Two years ago, he became the eighth president of the NUDT.

The Front Gates of NUDT

The NUDT was originally founded in 1953 with the name of Military Academy of Engineering (MAEJ during the Korean war. Enormous losses of the Chinese People’s Volunteer Army (PVA) in the Korean battlefield gave Chinese leaders unprecedented awareness of discrepancies in equipment compared with she enemies. China’s then top leaders decided to establish a military academy specializing establish a military academy specializing in weaponry engineering to cultivate officers who could master sophisticated weapon systems as soon as possible. Then PVA deputy commander Senior General Chen Geng was summoned back to prepare for the academy’s foundation. Chen was ) one of the first group of graduates froze Whampoa Military Academy, the first military academy in China’s contemporary history founded in 1924 as a result of the first Kuomintang-Communist cooperation. The MAE, founded amid both the war and domestic construction, gathered the top domestic experts and young talents as well as the most advanced weapon system. 

On Sept. 1, 1953, the MAE opened with Chen Geng as the first dean and political commissar. The academy had five departments, air force engineering, navy engineering, artillery engineering, engineer program and armored corps engineering-all of which covered the major aspects of Chinese armed forces’ weaponry construction at the early ages of the nation. Since the MAE was located in Harbin, capital of northeast China’s Heilongjiang Province, it was also known as “Harbin Military Engineering. “It was China’s first academy to train regular and professional military officers with high- level technological knowledge. Starting from the first 636 graduates in 1958 to 1966, the MAE trained more than 10,000 commanding and technical officers who later became the backbones of the fledging construction for the national defense modernization. 

During the Cultural Revolution (1966-1976), the MAE abolished its status as a military academy in 1966 and its major parts were moved from Harbin to Changsha three Years later. It was renamed “Changsha Institute of Technology”. In June 1978, it was re- listed as one of the PLA’s academies and rebuilt into the National University of Defense Technology, which was proposed and approved by then vice chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC) Deng Xiaoping. In fall 1981, the NUDT became one of the first universities that could award doctoral degrees when the PLA set a new target to become powerful, modernized and professional armed forces. 

Gen. Chen Geng as the first dean and political commissar

With the plea’s transition from dealing with ordinary threats to winning regional wars under high-tech conditions, Chinese armed forces accelerated the construction based on technological construction based on technological innovations. In June 1999, three other military academies in Changsha were merged to the NUDT, which is aimed at training senior technical and commanding officers as well as the PLA’s senior leaders in addition to its engagement in development of key defense technologies advanced weapon systems. Currently, the NUDT has established comprehensive studies centered on research of cutting- edge military technologies. It has a total of 18,000 students, 7,000 of whom are studying in 51 doctoral-degree majors and 95 master-degree majors. The NUDT has the most disciplines among all the PLA’s academies and it is also the Plies largest training center for high-level talents.

New Transition of “The PLA’s Own Tsinghua”

Since the NUDT has the highest level of technological researches among all Military academies in China, it is frequently called “the PLA’s own Tsinghua”. Tsinghua University is regarded as the top civilian university in science and technology in China.

Since the end of the 20th century, the CMC has introduced a new method to cultivate military officers for the armed forces: selected officer cadets enter g comprehensive university to finish four-year basic education, and then receive one-year professional training in an officer academy. Such “4+1″ type military officers are becoming the major source of the PLA’s commanding officers.

Since 2000, when the NUDT was designated one of the comprehensive Universities to train officer cadets, the NUDT has made the transition from only training technical engineers for military services to cultivating both the engineers and military commanding officers. Currently, the cadets of the “4+1″ program have accounted for two-thirds of the total undergraduate students in the university.

“Commanding officers cultivated for modern warfare are required to possess wide knowledge and comprehensive competence which a comprehensive Diversity could offer,” Xu Yitian, political commissar with the NUDT, said. “Our objective is to train information-savvy military leaders and commanders for combined arms operations.” 

Nearly 300 graduates of the NUDT have been promoted to military officers with Corps level and above or civilian leaders with ministerial level and above 

There are 36 graduates and faculty 8 members of the NUDT who are now scholars at the Chinese Academy of Sciences and Chinese Academy of Engineering, China’s top two academic institutions. A large amount of the Chinese astronautic experts graduated from the NUDT. ~n the Shenzhou-7 space mission succeeded in 2008, among more than 30 general directors and designers from She mission’s eight sub-systems, 19 of them ere NUDT graduates. The NUDT president Zhang Yulin, who is also an NLTDT graduate, shocked the international astronautic community by his Manlina Astronautics Medal-awarding essay when he was 24, 

Today, young experts are frequently seen in the NUDT, Wang Xuesong, a radar expert, became a tutor to PhD students at 32. Computer software expert Lu Kai gained his doctoral degree at only 28. In Nov. 2001, Zhang Daibin and other four master graduates with an average age of 23 succeeded to make out China’s first snake-shaped robot 

On July 10, 2009, 82 doctoral graduates of the NUDT started their journey t~ receive further education in overseas universities. President Zhang wrote in his advice to the graduates: To be a graduate of NUDT with big ambitions, to be an honest and upright Chinese, and to be a world citizen with wide vision.

Senior Officer’s “Battle Laboratory”

“The PLA has not been engaged in a major war for nearly 30 years. 0ur officers could only learn warfare from classrooms and laboratories,” Zhang Yulin said. Among the officers come to the NUDT’s laboratories to “learn warfare”, there are intermediate officers with regiment and division levels, and even senior officers with corps level and major military command level. 

Wars in the future will be high-tech competitions, which have been widely accepted by Chinese military personnel. In 1998, the CMC decided to set up a training course in the NUDT to train the PLA’s leaders at all levels with high- tech information. The training course was originally designed to publish genera high-tech knowledge with textbooks written by experts from different fields of studies. Jiang Zemin, then Chairman of the CMC, also asked for a textbook to learn the knowledge at home. With the Play new objectives to win regional wars under informationalized conditions, the training course is focusing on information technologies. Research on warfare under complicated electromagnetic environment has been adopted into the training course since 2007.

According to Chinese Resources, NUDT has developed some kind of land-based anti-satellite laser weapon

The latest session of the training course started on May 2009 introduced a new program, Military High-tech and Combined Operations, in which researches on technology and equipment combine with studies of practical operations. “Combined operations is the new trend for combat pattern around the world, and it needs the plea’s leaders have technological knowledge with much higher level,” Zhang welting, vice dean with the NUDT’s department of information system and management. 

From technological knowledge popularization to research of high-tech adoption in real combat, the training course has held 31 sessions in the past ten years and trained more than 1,700 military leaders with corps level and above. The training course also established a platform for interaction between the university and the PLA’ s officers. During the sessions, a general had helped the university’s professors resolve the accuracy problem with a type of cannonball. 

The combination of scientific research and the troop’s battle effectiveness makes the NUDT pay more attention to studies required by the troop’s practical needs. “Our university’s research teams have also been improved to have full awareness of the urgency of the combination,” Zhang welting said. “The combination is our only way.” In Feb. 2009, the NUDT began to consider a new discipline, scientific military study. 

A rich land for innovation core technologies

Core technologies with independent intellectual property rights could not be attained in trade. From the very beginning of the NUDT, it has shouldered the responsibility to develop China’s own military-use innovations. Soon after China implemented the opening up and reform policy, the communist party of China Central Committee decided to develop China’s own superserver. On 26 Nov. 1983, China’s first superserver, “Galaxy” was approved with the national qualification standards by the NUDT, ~l making China a new country after the United States, Japan and few others that could independently develop and manufacture superservers. With the constant development of new superservers, Chinese scientists have upgraded the capabilities of the superserver to a world-leading level. Currently, the “Galaxy” series of superservers are making great economic and social contributions by processing statistics in weather forecast, aerodynamic experiments and other large- scale scientific researches. 

China’s first superserver, “Galaxy” 

In addition to the “Galaxy” superservers, many other milestones of China’s scientific progress were also achieved in the NUDT: the first intracavity annular optical maser, the first two-legged robot, the first hominine robot, the first experimental lane for magnetic suspension train, etc. 

Since China Introduced its Reform and Opening-up policy at the end of 1970s, the NUDT has made more than 5,000 key achievements for scientific research. In high performance computers, advanced propulsion technology, new material technology and other crucial fields concerning national defense, the university has grasped a certain amount of core technologies with independent intellectual property rights and established a group of research centers. A new achievement was gained every three days and an achievement was awarded with honor every five days on average in the NUDT in the past decades. However, honors the NUDT aimed far beyond medals and honors. 

“We focus on the key cutting-edge military technologies that will determine the national defense and the PLA’s modernization, and take as research new I difficulties that restrict the mechanization and informationalization of the armed forces,” Zhang Yulin said. “Our core competitiveness is to directly provide core technologies for the armed forces’ Military preparations.”

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Feb.22 (China Military News cited from the register and written by Cade Metz ) — Two Chinese schools have denied a New York Times report that they were involved in the much-discussed cyber attacks on Google and at least 33 other outfits sometime last year.

On Thursday, The Times reported that the attacks had been traced to Shanghai Jiaotong University and Lanxiang Vocational School, claiming that the latter had close ties to the Chinese military. But representatives of both schools have denied involvement to the Chinese state news agency, according to Reuters, and the Lanxiang representative denied links to the military.

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Speaking with China’s official Xinhua news agency, a representative of Shanghai Jiaotong University indicated that even if the attacks appeared to be linked to an IP address at the school, that does not mean its students were involved. “We were shocked and indignant to hear these baseless allegations which may harm the university’s reputation,” said the unnamed spokesman.

“The report of the New York Times was based simply on an IP address. Given the highly developed network technology today, such a report is neither objective nor balanced.”

The Communist party boss at Lanxiang Vocational School told the news agency that an investigation “in the staff” had shown no signs that the attacks originated from the school. He also said that the school had no ties to the Chinese military and that contrary to the Times report, there was no link between the attacks and a computer class at the school taught by a Ukrainian professor.

“There is no Ukrainian teacher in the school and we have never employed any foreign staff,” he said. “The report was unfounded. Please show the evidence.”

In January, Google told the world that attacks originating from China had pilfered unspecified intellectual property from the company. Microsoft later said that the attack had exploited a hole in its Internet Explorer 6 browser – since patched – and according to security researchers, at least 33 other companies were targeted by similar attacks.

The Chinese government later denied any role in the attacks.

According to Google, “a primary goal” of the the attackers was to access the email accounts of Chinese human rights activists. The company said that attacks on two Gmail accounts were largely unsuccessful, but that an investigation showed that accounts belonging to dozens of activists in the US, China, and Europe “have been routinely accessed by third parties.”

In its blog post outing the attack, Google threatened to leave the country, where it has done business since January 2006. “We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all,” the post said. “We recognize that this may well mean having to shut down Google.cn, and potentially our offices in China.”

But more than five weeks have passed since the post without an official update from Google. And at a conference more than a week ago, Google co-founder Sergey Brin told The Times that any change in the situation may take “a year or two” rather than “a few weeks.”

“I want to find a way to work within the Chinese system to bring information to the people,” he said. “Perhaps we won’t succeed immediately, but maybe in a year or two.”

Increasingly, it appears that Google’s threat to leave the country was merely a means to diverting attention from the fact that its defenses had been breached by outside hackers.

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Feb.21 (China Military News cited from Chinadaily and written by Qin Jize and Li Xiaokun) — washington appears determined to surround China with US-built anti-missile systems, military scholars have observed.

According to US-based Defense News, Taiwan became the fifth global buyer of the Patriot missile defense system last year following Japan, the Republic of Korea, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.

Quite a few military experts have noted that Washington’s latest proposed weapon deal with Taiwan is the key part of a US strategic encirclement of China in the East Asian region, and that the missiles could soon have a footprint that extends from Japan to the Republic of Korea and Taiwan.

Air force colonel Dai Xu, a renowned military strategist, wrote in an article released this month that “China is in a crescent-shaped ring of encirclement. The ring begins in Japan, stretches through nations in the South China Sea to India, and ends in Afghanistan. Washington’s deployment of anti-missile systems around China’s periphery forms a crescent-shaped encirclement”.

Ni Lexiong, an expert on military affairs with the Shanghai Institute of Political Science and Law, told the Guanghzou Daily yesterday, “The US anti-missile system in China’s neighborhood is a replica of its strategy in Eastern Europe against Russia. The Obama administration began to plan for such a system around China after its project in Eastern Europe got suspended”.

Tang Xiaosong, director of the Center of International Security and Strategy Studies with Guangdong University of Foreign Studies noted that the ring encircling China can also be expanded at any time in other directions. He said that Washington is hoping to sell India and other Southeast Asian countries the Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 missile defense system.

Analysts say that China is closely monitoring US-India missile defense cooperation since any integration of India into the US global missile defense system, would profoundly affect China’s security.

However, according to former Chinese Ambassador to India Pei Yuanying, India is unlikely to be part of any such US scheme against China.

“New Delhi needs to develop relations with the US, but it wants to be an independent international power on the international arena,” he said.

Pei said it was necessary to take multiple aspects of China-US relations into consideration. “The US has followed the policy of engagement plus containment with China for a long time and that overall policy will not change during Obama’s term,” he said.

Defense News quoted John Holly, Lockheed’s vice president of Missile Defense Systems as saying the outlook for the missile defense market remains sound.

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Beijing has frequently criticized US missile-defense development and has been making efforts to restrict missile defenses through the United Nations forums.

Foreign Minister Yang Jiechi told a UN disarmament conference in August in Geneva that “countries should neither seek for absolute strategic predominance nor develop missile-defense systems that undermine global strategic stability.”

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ISLAMABAD – The first squadron of fighter jet JF-17 Thunder, a joint Pakistan-China production, was on Thursday inducted in Pakistan Air Force (PAF) fleet.

A special ceremony was held for this purpose at PAF airbase near Kamra Aeronautical Complex, about 50km from here. Chief of Air Staff Rao Qamar Suleman formally received the squadron.

In his address, the Air Chief congratulated the nation and said it is a historic day for PAF and entire nation.

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Feb.14 (China Military Power Reporting by Hu Guangzheng and Wang Yue) — On July 13, 2009, the “Plan for Deepening the Reforrn of the NonCommissioned Officer System” of the Chinese people’s Liberation Army was passed. The People’s Liberation Army (PLA) will implement the new NCO system by the end of this year.

How does the system evolve? What kind of changes will the reform bring about? Will it make the PLA more professional?

Background

Military personnel in active service with the PLA consist of officers, civil g cadres and soldiers. Soldiers in active service are recruited as conscripts or Volunteers.

After the establishment of the People’s Republic of China in October 1949, the 11 PLA adopted the recruitment system practiced in wartime. Signing up was voluntary. There mete no ranks, no limit to service terms, and no rank of NCO.

The PRC passed and implemented its first militate service law in 1955, which established a compulsory military service system and system of military ranks, putting an end to the previous voluntary enlistment. In accordance with the different types of service, terms of service, the terms of active service ranged from three to five years. Soldiers were classified into two grades with five ranks: staff sergeant, sergeant and corporal, and private first class and private. At that time, sergeants could not go by the title of noncommissioned officers. However, the system of ranks was abolished in 1965.

In 1978, the Standing Committee of the National People’s Congress passed the “Decision on Issues of the Military Service System,” which said, “In order to strengthen the power of technicians in the PLA, some privates are allowed to become sergeants and extend their terms of service .” In 1984, the National People’s Congress approved the second version of the military service 1aw, stipulating that the Play military service system would be mainly based on conscription, but voluntary enlistment would be applied a well. In 1988, the military ranking system was restored. “NCO” emerged as an official title. NCOs fell into two categories: master NCOs and specialists. The rands of sergeants and privates were the same as in 1955. In 1993, the revised version of the “regulation on service for active-duty soldiers” stipulated that there would be four ranks for master NCOs and specialist NCOs. These were, from highest to lowest, class four to class one. In 1998, the military service law was revised for the third time. Because of the constantly growing proportion of volunteer recruits, the condition of a mostly conscripted force was canceled. In 1999, the revised regulation on military service set the term for conscripts at two years. They would be privates in the first year, and promoted to private first class in the second year. Apart from privates who had already finished their basic Military service, NCOs could also be enlisted from non-military personnel. There were six classes for NCOs with classes one I and two being subordinate, three and four being intermediates, and five and six being seniors .

The NCO system developed rapidly and NCOs have become a major power in China’s armed forces, pushing farmyard the modernization of the PLA.

New Changes

In 2009, in order to improve the Play ability to accomplish its historical missions, the Central Military Commission issued a “Plan for Deepening the Reform of the Non-Commissioned Officer System,” which will be fully implemented by the end of this year.

The reform aims at advancing the development of the NCO contingent and beefing up the Play combat strength in the information age. The main points of the reform are:

Increasing the number of high-tech professionals. The number of NCOs will rise to almost 900,000 while the total number of personnel will remain unchanged. Adding NCO posts was deplaned to Increase the strength of information technology-intensive corps, overcoming the imbalance between the previous structure of the NCO contingent and the need to improve combat effectiveness.

Restructuring the NCO contingent The current six levels of service terms will be cut to three, with up to six years for junior NCOs, a maximum eight years for the intermediates and 14 years or longer for seniors. The number of intermediates and seniors would be increased, and juniors reduced, which would help avoid the problem of frequent turnover, with a continual selection of new NCOs and brain drain among the backbone NCOs.

Adjusting the NCO ranking system. Instead of the current six-level ranking system, NCOs will be ranked in seven classes. They are, from lowest to highest, corporal, sergeant, sergeant first class, master sergeant class four, master sergeant class three, master sergeant class two and master sergeant class one. The new ranks are coordinated with the international NCO ranking system while maintaining the characteristics of the PLA.

Improving enlistment. The PLA will recruit more graduates with three-year college diploma qualifications or higher. To guarantee standardization and fairness in the enrollment procedure, the candidates’ identity will be registered and accredited, using information technology. NCOs with specialized skills will be required with relevant qualifications and the selection of senior grade NCOs will involve evaluation from experts.

Improving the NCO training system, In order to make NCOs more proficient in their duties, the new NCOs will need qualifications, and all NCOs who seek g Promotion will be required to undergo training and pass exams.

Improving the administration system. NCOs who have not finished serving the minimum term may be discharged from active service in special circumstances. I Evaluation of vocational skills will be standardized and included in the assessment on military training. Incentive measures will be improved to encourage competition.

Raising NCO pay. Basic salaries for intermediate grade NCOs and subsidies for all NCOs will be raised. Another subsidy for NCOs who possess professional skills will be added in due course. Following the principle of payment meeting contribution, I the rise is conducive to attracting and retaining talent.

Trend of Development

Over the years, the number of NCOs in the PLA has increased from more than 100,000 to the current 800,000. NCOs have become the major force filling PLA’s specialized technician posts. They serve in key departments such as missiles, communications, radar, ships and aviation. Senior NCOs hold important posts needing command of complex technology. In 2008, the names of NCOs first appeared on the ~ list of people who were honored with the “Special government allowance” approved by the State Council. The four NCOs were: Class-6 NCO Zhu Guiquan, a pilot of Ship 112 of the North China Sea Fleet; Class-5 NCO Zhang Xinyuan, who served in the air force; Class-5 NCO Guo Yafei, a squad leader of the PLA Second Artillery corps; and Class-5 NCO Zong Daohui, a technician who remote-controlled unmanned air reconnaissance vehicles for the Guangzhou Military Area Command. Such Important awards showed NCOs were playing an increasingly important role in the PLA.

The expansion of NCO numbers raises their strength as the backbone of the PLA’s grassroots personnel, which helps guarantee the training and management of the soldiers and provides technical support. Furthermore, NOCs are leading the way in many difficult and perilous tasks.

Talented NOC technicians laid the foundation of PLA’s combat strength. Each year, 15 percent of NCOs undergo training. More than 90 percent of the NCOs have undergone systematic training, gradually upgrading the armed forces’ ability to carry out combat missions. With a growing talent pool, the overall quality of PLA has gradually improved.

Talents with management, operational, training and repair expertise, and a great range of knowledge can be easily found in the NCO corps, playing important roles in tasks, including military preparedness, disaster relief, anti-terrorism operations, as well as international peacekeeping activities.

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Feb.10 (China Military Power Reporting by Johnathan Weng) — February 8, 2010, the Xinjiang Armed Police Corps’ Sixth detachment was set up in a grand conference, the Xinjiang Armed Police Corps to further expand the scale.

Chinese Armed Police Force deputy chief of staff Pan Changjie, vice chairman of the Xinjiang autonomous region Jappa Abibulla inaugurated the foundation meeting of the sixth detachment.

At the meeting, Pan Changjie hopes the sixth armed police detachment to become the fist to maintain stability in Xinjiang. In the formation of 6th Detachment, levels of officers are from other Xinjiang armed force units and its cadremen are transferred from across the country of elite anti-terror forces.
 
The positioning of the sixth detachment based in Urumqi protection and this unit is a brigade-level force to carry anti-terror mission around the Xinjiang.

Vice Chairman Jappa Abibulla fully affirmed the significance of the 6th armed police detachment, while he said the local government would continue to carry out its mandate to support the armed police force to help solve their problems.

Xinjiang Armed Police Corps totally has 14 armed police detachments and one armed police mobile division. Northern Xinjiang region has five armed police detachment and an armed police motorized divisions, and there are nine detachments in southern Xinjiang. In Xinjiang Autonomous Region, Chinese government has placed the largest armed police power, whose strength could reach 30,000.

Some related information:
   
Northern Xinjiang region:

     1st Detachment
Location: Urumqi
Purpose: Mobile Anti-terror operation

     2nd Detachment
Location: Urumqi
Purpose: Mobile Anti-terror operation

     6th Detachment
Location: Urumqi
Purpose: Mobile Anti-terror operation

     4th Detachment
Location: Kashi

     5th Detachment
Location: Ili

     7th People’s Armed Police Tactical Division
     Location: Ili
 
    Southern Xinjiang region:

     3rd Detachment
Location: Aksu

     Bayingolin Detachment
Location: Bayingolin

     8th Detachment
     Location: Hotan
    
     Other detachments in southern Xinjiang region are unclear.

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Feb.02 (China Military News cited from PLAdaily and written by Guo Jianyue and Gao Pengfei) — The Chinese and Russian frontier defense troops accomplished the first joint patrol along the Argun River, an iced Sino-Russian boundary river in the east of Inner Mongolia of People’s Republic of China (PRC), between January 25 and 26.

According to the commander of the Hulun Buir Military Sub-Command of the Inner Mongolia Military Command, the Sino-Russian joint patrol this time not only enhanced mutual trust and understanding between the Chinese and Russian border representative organs, but also laid a more solid foundation for the Chinese and Russian frontier defense troops to construct a peaceful and stable frontier environment through concerted efforts.

Offciers of  Chinese and Russian boundary defense troops

In spite of that the temperature in the Greater Khingan Mountains in the east of Inner Mongolia was as low as 30 degrees Centigrade below zero at 8:30 a.m. on January 25, the Sino-Russian frontier defense troops carried out their joint-patrol along the iced border river as planned.

The patrol personnel entered the iced boundary Argun River from the Chinese territory and then headed northward following the No. 111 border marker before finally arriving at the No. 124 border marker on the afternoon of January 26, covering a distance of 200 km in total.

The personnel participating in the joint patrol had determined on carrying out such tasks as jointly inspecting the order of the covered border section, checking the border markers and greeting the officers and men performing duty at the sentry posts.

Some officers and men from each of the Sino-Russian frontier sentries along the border river were also dispatched to join in the joint patrol in such forms as taking a vehicle and riding a motorcycle or a sled.

It is learned that in the coming summer the Sino-Russian joint patrol by boat will be staged along the boundary Argun River and a Sino-Russian joint military exercise will be carried out to crack down on the cross-border smuggling and sorts of other illegal activities in the Sino-Russian border area so as to guarantee the stability and prosperity in that area.

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