Military recruits sit in line at a farewell and welcome ceremony at Chengdu East Station in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept 10, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Military recruits show what's inside their luggage at a farewell and welcome ceremony at Chengdu East Station in Southwest China's Sichuan province on Sept 10, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Military recruits wearing huge red flowers pinned to the front of their clothes stand in a queue at the Nanchang West railway station in Nanchang city, East China's Jiangxi province, on Sept 10, 2018. [Photo/IC]
Photo taken on Sept. 13, 2018 shows the Vostok-2018 (East-2018) military exercise at the Tsugol training range in the Trans-Baikal region in Russia. The drills are aimed at consolidating and developing the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership of coordination, deepening pragmatic and friendly cooperation between the two armies, and further strengthening their ability to jointly deal with varied security threats, the Chinese Ministry of National Defense announced. (Photos: China News Service/Li Chun)
09.17.2018...An artilleryman uses an optical sighting device to keep the shells on targets during a recent live-fire field training exercise in southwest China's Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. He is assigned to a brigade under the PLA 76th Group Army. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Yuan Hongyan)
An artilleryman assigned to a brigade with the PLA 76th Group Army loads 122mm ammunitions for a truck-mounted self-propelled howitzer system during a recent live-fire field training exercise in southwest China's Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Yuan Hongyan)
Artillerymen assigned to a brigade with the PLA 76th Group Army operate a PCL-09 122mm truck-mounted self-propelled howitzer system to fire at mock targets during a recent live-fire field training exercise in southwest China's Qinghai-Xizang Plateau. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Yuan Hongyan)
Some 200 Chinese armed police officers receive training in Fangchenggang City, South China’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The week-long training includes demanding search and rescue operations in mountain and forest settings, and rapid response to infection outbreak scenarios. (Photo: China News Service/Cui Cheng)
Soldiers assigned to a combined brigade under the PLA Eastern Theater Command reinforce Type 96A main battle tanks onto the railcar in preparation for a long-distance maneuver during a live-fire training exercise on October 8, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Pang Xiangchuan)
A PLZ-83 152mm self-propelled howitzer system attached to a brigade under the PLA 81st Group Army fires at mock target during a round-the-clock live-fire training exercise at an artillery training base in north China in late September, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Yan Zheng)
A group of Type-96A main battle tanks (MBTs) attached to an armored detachment with the PLA 76th Group Army are en route to a designated training area in formation during an actual combat training exercise in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 16, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photos by Zhu Bin)
Infantrymen assigned to an armored detachment with the PLA 76th Group Army disembark from a Type 97(?) APC during an actual combat training exercise in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 16, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Zhu Bin)
Infantrymen assigned to an armored detachment with the PLA 76th Group Army advance to assault mock enemies' positions under the cover of Type-96A main battle tanks (MBTs) during an actual combat training exercise in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 16, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Zhu Bin)
Infantrymen assigned to an armored detachment with the PLA 76th Group Army provide security for each other before boarding a Type-96A main battle tank (MBT) during an actual combat training exercise in northwest China's Gansu Province on October 16, 2018. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Zhu Bin)
PLA soldiers prepare for a mine clearance operation in border city of Pingxiang, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The PLA soldiers detonated on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 the last mine in a minefield in Pingxiang. (Photo: China News Service/Jiang Xuelin)
PLA soliders in a mine clearance operation in border city of Pingxiang, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The PLA soldiers detonated on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 the last mine in a minefield in Pingxiang. The operation marked the completion of a years-long landmine-sweeping mission in the Guangxi section of the Sino-Vietnam border, clearing the dangerous historical legacy that has hindered border development. (Photo: China News Service/Jiang Xuelin)
Mines found a mine clearance operation in border city of Pingxiang, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. The PLA soldiers detonated on Thursday, Oct. 25, 2018 the last mine in a minefield in Pingxiang.