I was in Hangzhou in southern China a couple of weeks back, and there were a lot of highly intensive sorties being flown by JH7s while I was there.
China is keeping quiet on the boarders, but from what I have seen, the PLAAF is drilling hard in Chinese hinterland areas, far away from trouble spots as to escape notice of most foreign media.
New variant of an old missile
K / AKD88A, a new variant of the KD-88 Air-Ground missile with IR imaging guidance and a 320 kg military load for the JH-7A.