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The PLA Southern Theater Command conducted maritime and air joint training exercises in the territorial waters and airspace of Huangyan Island following the Philippines' submission of nautical charts of the feature to the United Nations, with the China Coast G…
A Rocket Force brigade operating from a tunnel-based launch facility (the 'Underground Dragon Palace') conducted a midnight rapid-strike-and-withdrawal exercise, then detailed for PLA Daily its maintenance regime, cross-training program, and sealed-environment…
MND spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi, on August 7, formally characterized the PLA Southern Theater Command's joint maritime and air exercises around Huangyan Dao — conducted after the Philippines deposited nautical charts with the UN — as a 'solemn warning'…
China and Belarus will conduct 'Swift Eagle-2026' airborne joint training in Hubei in mid-to-late August, the fourth iteration of this bilateral series, focused on urban counter-terrorism tasks including reconnaissance and counter-reconnaissance, seizure-and-c…
Chinese and Belarusian airborne troops will conduct Swift Eagle 2026 joint training in Hubei Province in mid-to-late August 2026, the fourth iteration of this bilateral exercise, focused on urban counter-terrorism tasks including surveillance and counter-surve…
An unidentified Air Force airlift brigade has deployed a lightweight airlift resource scheduling system — described internally as a 'cloud-based dispatcher' (云端调度员) — that automates personnel qualification checks, aircraft-type matching, and transportation pla…
The Chinese Navy's Vessel-83 formation — built around the training ship Qi Jiguang and the amphibious transport dock Kunlunshan — departed Surabaya's Tanjung Perak Port on August 6 after a four-day goodwill visit to Indonesia, conducted under the far-seas comp…
Garrison personnel from a Navy Nansha Islands unit produced a short-video series titled 'I'll Tell the Nansha Story,' accumulating more than ten million views across dozens of episodes; the series was named a '2025 Strong-Military Positive-Energy Online Excell…
Anti-tank missile troops from an unidentified PLA Army brigade road-marched over 1,000 kilometers to the Gobi Desert for a live-fire tactical drill covering reconnaissance, fire strikes, and shoot-and-scoot maneuvers. This is a standard combined-arms readiness…
A PLA Daily reporter visited a concealed sentry post (暗哨) exercise at a training ground under the Shenyang Joint Logistics Support Center, where company political instructor Liu Dong'ang led a security detachment through extended prone concealment, OPFOR UAV e…
A detachment-level officer recounts how Private First Class Cao Ming, a two-year conscript previously dismissed as unmotivated, pushed for a retest on his 3,000-meter run and improved by nearly 20 seconds after the detachment introduced a squad-based monthly a…
At the MND's August 7 press conference, spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi outlined how the PLA will implement Xi Jinping's speech at the Politburo's 27th collective study session, which focused on national defense and military modernization. Chen's response …
Sergeant Gao Debao, assigned to an unspecified unit under the Military Space Force (航天部队), maintains and troubleshoots ground-based space support equipment at a fixed installation, and led a small innovation team that developed a device extending a critical co…
The Yuncheng Detachment of the Shanxi Corps, People's Armed Police, ran its 2026 summer-autumn cycle corporal selection and promotion assessments (警士选晋考核), testing candidates across military physical fitness, professional skills, and political theory. This is …
PLA political work media profiles Wang Ji, a wheelchair-bound researcher at the National University of Defense Technology's 'Galaxy' (银河) supercomputing program, framing his decades of work on high-assurance software (高可信软件) through dialysis and disability as …
A political instructor (政治指导员) in a command support company of an unspecified battalion under the 80th Group Army spent several consecutive days personally painting walls and repairing barracks fixtures on a ladder during a pre-deployment overhaul, working alo…
A regiment of the Xinjiang Military Region's political work office postponed a grassroots dialogue meeting three times after regimental leadership rejected plans that lacked concrete resolutions, measurable implementation steps, and firsthand research from bat…
Staff Sergeant Second Class Long Haisheng, a sniper assigned to an unspecified People's Armed Police detachment on the Pamir Plateau, won championships in the long-distance rapid sniper and high-value target selection events at the 2025 All-Army 'King of Marks…
MND spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi, at a 7 August press briefing, defended the PLA Southern Theater Command's joint exercises in the territorial waters and airspace of Huangyan Dao and the China Coast Guard's concurrent law-enforcement training there as a…
An unnamed instructor at an unidentified PLA military academy describes the reform of the 'Fundamentals of Artificial Intelligence' course—designated a national first-class course and described as the military's first 精品课程 in AI—including a January 2025 Genera…
China's defense ministry vows firm countermeasures against Philippine provocations over Huangyan Dao
The PLA Southern Theater Command conducted joint maritime and air drills on Saturday in the vicinity of Huangyan Dao (Scarborough Shoal), framed by the Defense Ministry as a direct response to Philippine provocations. The exercise documents the STC's establish…
The Central Propaganda Department and the CMC Political Work Department jointly named 12 'Most Beautiful Revolutionary Soldiers of the New Era,' including Central Theater Command Joint Staff Department staff officer Li Can, cyberspace forces researcher Gu Qiao…
MND spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi, responding to questions on August 7 about the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force's Tomahawk cruise missile live-fire test and the Japan Air Self-Defense Force's captive carry test of a new-type missile, accused Japan of …
At the August 7 MND press briefing, spokesperson Senior Colonel Chen Xi formally endorsed Wang Ji, a researcher at the National University of Defense Technology's School of Computer Science, who was designated a '时代楷模' (Role Model of the Era) by the Central Pr…
Y-20B can switch between transport, tanker, other combat roles, PLA documentary reveals Model-flagged
A PLA documentary reveals that the Y-20B is designed for rapid role-switching between strategic transport, aerial refueling, and unspecified other combat configurations, presenting the three-variant Y-20 family together on the tarmac and confirming the YU-20 t…
The 'Engineer Red First Company' of an unnamed brigade of the 72nd Group Army—founded in 1930 from Anyuan coal miners and designated the 'Pathfinding Vanguard Company' in 1979—received collective second-class merit and two Theater Army commendations in 2024–20…
A PLA Daily feature profiles the officers and soldiers of an unidentified Army ordnance test range located in a grassland region — established in 1953 as China's first military ordnance test range — documenting the work of senior engineers Leng Xuebing and Wan…
A brigade of the 76th Group Army conducted a multi-day land-air confrontation exercise on a plateau training ground alongside an Air Force unit and an Army Aviation unit, running consecutive subjects including full-airspace early warning, multi-means penetrati…
The multi-functional engineer detachment of China's 24th peacekeeping contingent to Lebanon held a themed event marking the 20th anniversary of PLA deployments to UNIFIL, at which UNIFIL Force Commander Aroldo Lázaro Sáenz praised Chinese contributions; over 2…
A brigade of the 76th Group Army conducted multi-round army-air opposition training on a plateau training ground this summer alongside an Air Force unit and an Army Aviation unit, integrating commanders and staff from all three services at a shared command pos…
The PAP Qianxinan Detachment (covering Qianxinan Prefecture, Guizhou) recently ran a battlefield medical rescue exercise drilling hemorrhage control, bandaging, debridement and suturing, fracture immobilization, and casualty evacuation under simulated combat c…
Training ship Qijiguang (Hull 83) and amphibious dock landing ship Kunlunshan (Hull 998) departed Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya on August 6 after a four-day goodwill visit to Indonesia that included courtesy calls on Indonesian military and government leaders…
The Air Force Logistics Department Health Bureau convened the first Air Force Medical Institutions Rational Drug Use Management Training Course at Xijing Hospital, drawing more than 700 pharmaceutical and clinical personnel from across Air Force medical instit…
The Fangchenggang Detachment of the People's Armed Police Guangxi General Corps recently ran a concentrated assault boat operator course in unfamiliar waters, structured around the three-phase model 理论授课+实操训练+考核验收 (theory, practical training, assessment) and t…
Liu Jie, the parachute training director of an unidentified Air Force brigade, conducts pre-jump equipment inspections and in-flight safety oversight during a summer parachute drop exercise, personally checking every jumper before exit and standing at the cabi…
The PLA Daily published this commemorative piece marking the 90th anniversary of the Central Red Army's October 17–21, 1934 departure from Yudu County, Jiangxi, detailing the crossing of the Yudu River by more than 86,000 troops across ten points using five po…
PLA Daily ran a correspondent's photo report from Zhongfu Village in Changting County, Fujian, documenting the site where the Red 9th Army Corps held its farewell rally on September 30, 1934, before departing on the Long March — covering the seven-day Battle o…
PLA Daily published a behind-the-scenes companion piece to Season Two of the micro-documentary series 'Strengthening the Military Through Thought, Cultivating a New Generation' (强军思想育新人), profiling three servicemembers: Z-10 armed helicopter pilot Zhao Xiaolei…
China's 24th Peacekeeping Contingent to Lebanon held a commemorative event in Beirut on July 28, 2026, marking 20 years of PLA participation in UNIFIL, during which UNIFIL Force Commander Major General Diodato Abagnara praised the contingent's contributions; t…
A Political Work Department leader at an unidentified brigade describes three service initiatives implemented under the brigade's 政治整训 (political rectification training) campaign: an upgraded unmanned intelligent cabinet with facial recognition and two-way SMS…
Zang Qianwen, an officer in a brigade of the 76th Group Army, uses the return of a mission detachment and a sharing-of-advanced-deeds event (先进事迹分享会) as the frame for a political-work essay connecting Staff Sergeant Second Class Li Lianjie's parting words to h…
Officers and soldiers from an Eastern Theater Command Air Force unit visited the Memorial Hall of the Central Red Army's Long March Departure in Ruijin, where study of the 1934 'Field Army Action Schedule from October 10 to October 20' — the Central Revolution…
A PLA Daily commentary by reporter Xiang Liming uses Red Army wall slogans from Yu'du County, Jiangxi — including lines targeting White Army conscripts during the anti-encirclement campaigns — to argue that political work language should be plain, concrete, an…
A commentary in the PLA's Strong Military Forum, authored by Sun Yang, argues that newly appointed unit commanders must resolve inherited institutional problems—unaddressed grievances of junior officers and soldiers, chronic construction shortfalls, entrenched…
The 16th Chinese Peacekeeping Horizontal Engineering Company deployed to UNMISS in Wau, South Sudan visited Amy Robin Primary School on August 6, distributing school supplies and sports equipment while military doctors provided wound care and health education …
A brigade of the 83rd Group Army conducted live-fire MLRS strikes against maritime targets, using forward-deployed UAVs for target acquisition and executing two strike rounds with rapid displacement between launches. The exercise documents a shoot-and-scoot pr…
He Qinglong, a sergeant in the UAV reconnaissance detachment of a brigade under the 82nd Group Army, voluntarily withdrew from the unit's annual UAV specialty competition to focus on developing combat-realistic training methods (训法) and tactics (战法), after a b…
Yin Hao, a Chinese Academy of Sciences academician and researcher at the Academy of Military Sciences' Systems Engineering Research Institute, lays out in PLA Daily the architecture and doctrine of what the PLA terms an intelligent communications network (智能化通…
A camouflage detachment of an unidentified Army brigade conducted a 33-hour field exercise in which personnel concealed a command post and vehicle column against infrared and satellite reconnaissance, with Sergeant First Class Liu Meng also serving as an instr…
Astronauts Zhang Lu, Wu Fei, and Zhang Hongzhang made their first post-quarantine public appearance at Beijing Aerospace City on June 12, recounting a 210-day Shenzhou-21 mission that included three EVAs, China's first on-orbit aeroponic cultivation of cherry …
Navy Flotilla 83, on a friendly visit to Indonesia, conducted a mutual ship visit with the Indonesian Navy at Surabaya Port in early August, with Chinese cadets and officers from the training ship Qi Jiguang boarding the Indonesian sail training ship Bima Suci…
The Mobile Detachment of the People's Armed Police Guangxi General Corps recently conducted combat-realistic training (实战化训练) in unfamiliar terrain, drilling close-quarters combat techniques (擒敌术), individual-soldier rocket launcher live-fire, and flamethrower…
A subordinate brigade of the PAP First Mobile Corps has established a walk-in service office called the '事事通' (Everything Goes Through) station, rotating headquarters staff weekly to subordinate battalions to handle benefits enrollment, promotion eligibility q…
Battling High Temperatures and Scorching Heat, the Training Ground Is Thick with the Scent of "War"!
A Northern Theater Command Naval Aviation Force ground support station ran summer intensive training focused on radar emplacement and withdrawal, command post establishment, and emergency equipment repair, framing each evolution as close-to-combat (紧贴实战) rehea…
The PAP Zhejiang Corps Lishui Detachment hosted a 双拥共建 (military-civilian mutual support co-building) event in which local She ethnic community members brought cultural demonstrations and revolutionary history presentations into the garrison, framing She ethni…
The People's Armed Police Force Party Committee Standing Committee approved the 25th cohort of 'China People's Armed Police Loyal Guardian' honorees: eleven living personnel and four posthumous martyrs, selected through a process launched in April that ran fro…
Three authors from the Air Force Aviation University published a doctrinal essay in official military media elaborating on the 'Fourteen Upholds' principle of building an organizational system that is 'vertically integrated and capable of forceful execution' (…
Rocket Force senior NCO Hou Changling was recognized at the CMC Military Training Conference in Beijing on November 25, 2020, as an 'Advanced Individual in Military Training Across the Armed Forces,' with his crew having earned collective Third-Class Merit Cit…
A PLA political work commentary uses Battalion Commander Li's four-year tenure — during which his unnamed battalion earned 'Four-Iron' (四铁) commendations, a collective third-class merit citation, and produced multiple competition medalists — to argue that gras…
During the 三伏 (dog-days) heat peak, a PLA Daily reporter visited a garrison battalion of an Army 'Red Army' regiment stationed near Turpan's Flaming Mountain, where outdoor temperatures exceeded 43°C, and found that the unit had implemented a 全员上哨制度 (all-hands…
NUDT College of Computer Science researcher Wang Ji — a wheelchair-bound dialysis patient and leading figure in China's high-assurance software (高可信软件) field — has been designated a 'Model of the Era' (时代楷模), prompting a coordinated study campaign across PLA u…
The Mobile Detachment of the People's Armed Police Tianjin General Corps recently ran flood-season boat and watercraft training covering basic handling, formation navigation, and water search and rescue across four scenario types: river flooding, levee breache…
Bu Jiawen, commander of a flight battalion in an unspecified PLA Air Force aviation unit, is profiled as a model pilot who over ten years progressed from first-solo honors in his cohort through squadron command and instructor duty to battalion command, where h…
The Party branch of Mobile 8th Company, Mobile 3rd Battalion, Qinhuangdao Armed Police Detachment has been recognized as a National Advanced Grassroots Party Organization under the People's Armed Police's 'Two Excellences, One Vanguard' (两优一先) campaign, citing…
A commentary in a PLA political education forum profiles Wang Ji, a researcher at the National University of Defense Technology's College of Computer Science working in high-assurance software, as a model of sustained, classified foundational research — framin…
Foreign Ministry Spokesperson Lin Jian on August 5 lodged formal representations with Japan over the 2026 Japanese Defense White Paper, rejecting its characterization of China as the 'greatest strategic challenge' and its framing of Japan's defense industrial …
PLA Air Force unveils three-drone system with GJ-3A debut, providing intel to Army, Navy, Rocket Force Model-flagged
CCTV aired footage Friday revealing the PLA Air Force's intelligent strike-planning system built around three drone types, including the GJ-3A in its public debut, with the system described as providing targeting intelligence to the PLA Army, Navy, and Rocket …
Wang Tao, deputy commanding officer of the aircraft carrier Fujian, is profiled as a former naval aviator from the 'Sea-Air Eagle Regiment' (海空雄鹰团) who accumulated over 1,700 flight hours before transitioning to surface command, earning full ship-commanding-of…
PLA documentary debuts H-6N bomber carrying single large missile; weapon capable of anti-ship and ground strikes: expert Model-flagged
A PLA documentary has released footage showing an H-6N bomber carrying a single large missile described by cited experts as capable of both anti-ship and ground-strike missions, marking a rare official visual confirmation of the H-6N's weapons configuration. T…
A PLA theoretical journal article lays out a doctrinal framework for how combat capability is generated under intelligentized (智能化) conditions, arguing that data, algorithms, and computing power have displaced mass and firepower as the primary drivers of comba…
A Naval Aviation air base on the East China Sea coast has restructured its ground support system to handle simultaneous cross-service joint flight training involving Army Aviation, Naval Aviation, and other units operating mixed aircraft types — UAVs, transpor…
An unidentified PLA Air Force unit stationed in the Gobi Desert has institutionalized a cross-aircraft-type cross-training mechanism (多机型通保) for aviation maintenance personnel, producing a cohort capable of servicing two or more combat aircraft types and trans…
The National Defense University's College of Political Science concluded a one-month military-wide training course for propaganda and education backbone personnel from corps-level-and-above units, centered on improving political cadres' ability to organize and…
Two veteran squad leaders, Zhang Jianzhou and Yu Xingwang, conducted a communications equipment tutoring session for cadets at the People's Armed Police Coast Guard Academy, using personal accounts from operational service—including a far-sea fault-repair miss…
A brigade of the 76th Group Army, garrisoning near the Turpan Basin where temperatures have exceeded 45°C, replaced field tents with air-conditioned prefabricated panel rooms this training season after an internal Party committee investigation documented more …
An article in Chinese military media argues against what it frames as cognitive overreach on unmanned combat forces, contending that unmanned platforms function as a force 'multiplier' (倍增器) within a joint system-of-systems rather than as independent war-winne…
For the 2026 enrollment cycle, approximately 192,000 applicants from all 31 provinces submitted applications to PLA military academies, with 22 academies admitting more than 17,500 cadets whose average scores ranked in the top 6% provincially — up from roughly…
An unnamed Rocket Force transport regiment — whose primary positions require two-person coordinated pairs — piloted a revised evaluation mechanism (考评机制) in which paired soldiers are split during competitions, with one competing and the other serving as examin…
A PLA Daily August 1st commentary profiles Wang Ji, a National University of Defense Technology computer science researcher designated a 时代楷模 (Model of the Era), framing his decades of work on 高可信软件 (high-assurance software) and resistance to chasing popular, …
An unnamed PLA unit recently conducted field garrison training that embedded multi-arm integration across planning, execution, and sustainment phases, with attached and supporting forces brought under a unified command system and sustainment modules maneuverin…
The Nanjing Campus of the Army Branch Arms University ran a cadre training course—covering artillery battalion field-site tactical instruction and initial-level command education—in which the trainees' unit temporary Party branch enforced strict conduct and st…
Dang Weitao, a party member cadre of a brigade under the 73rd Group Army, recounts his work as party branch secretary in two honorary companies — the 'Qingzhou Company' and the 'Strengthen the Military, Excel in Martial Arts Red Fourth Company' — before transf…
The Central Leading Group for Party Building has directed all PLA Party organizations to use two new Xi Jinping study compilations on grassroots work methods as required materials for education on the 正确政绩观 (correct view of political achievement), framing gras…
TA4360 heavy equipment transporters assigned to the PLA Xinjiang Military Command recently conducted long-distance maneuver training on plateau terrain, combining driving, vehicle maintenance, and reconnaissance drills to test emergency response and coordinate…
The Central Propaganda Department and Ministry of Justice have released the 'Ninth Five-Year Plan for Rule-of-Law Publicity and Education (2026–2030),' and this PLA commentary uses the plan's release to push units toward data-driven, targeted legal education—f…
MND spokesperson Chen Xi, responding to Japan's 2026 Defense White Paper, rejected its characterization of China as 'an unprecedented and greatest strategic challenge' and accused Tokyo of using 'exclusively defensive defense' (専守防衛) as cover for developing lo…
On July 29, the Central Propaganda Department awarded Wang Ji, a computer science researcher at the National University of Defense Technology, the title 时代楷模 ('Model of the Era'), triggering a coordinated study campaign that reached units from CMC organs to gr…
A PLA political work officer writing in official military media recounts how a talented staff officer, Xiao Liu, initially refused a headquarters secondment because a previous drafting assignment had devolved into endless word-polishing with no substantive out…
Junsheng | China's Resolve to Safeguard Sovereignty and Maritime Rights over Huangyan Island Is Unwavering Model-flagged
The PLA Southern Theater Command conducted a maritime and aerial joint exercise in the territorial sea, territorial airspace, and surrounding waters of Huangyan Island on August 1, framed explicitly as a response to the Philippines' announcement of territorial…
The CMC Logistic Support Department's Military Supplies and Energy Bureau has launched the PLA's first phased pilot for market-selected physical training footwear, opening appointment requisitions to personnel stationed in Beijing and Guangdong in late July ac…
Navy Ship Formation 83 arrived at Tanjung Perak Port in Surabaya, Indonesia on August 2 for a four-day port call, with post-visit maritime joint exercises scheduled before the formation continues its far-seas comprehensive training mission. The visit follows t…
At a maritime training site on the eastern Shandong coast, PLA soldier Lin Yuan completes his first open-water sea-swimming progression under squad leader Wu Bin, moving from shore-based dry drills (磨肚皮, 'belly grinding' on folding stools) through a failed fir…
An unidentified Air Force brigade has used the PLA's internal Strong Military Network (强军网) to run a grassroots feedback platform called 'Sunshine Military Affairs — All Questions Answered' (阳光兵事 有问必答), through which enlisted personnel and junior officers subm…
A Record of the Air Force Deploying Y-20s to Transport Newly Enrolled Flight Cadets to Report for Duty Model-flagged
On August 1st, the Air Force used Y-20 large transport aircraft — including, for the first time, the Y-20B fitted with the new domestic WS-20 engine — to fly newly enrolled flight cadets from six staging cities (Shenyang, Shijiazhuang, Jinan, Nanjing, Changsha…
From 'Each Managing Its Own Segment' to 'Cloud-Network Integration': The Barriers to Data Fusion Have Been Broken Model-flagged
A PLA technical support unit—whose engineers averaged under 27 years old—built a cross-network data-fusion architecture that lets Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps units share a single operational picture in real time, resolving a failure exposed during …
A PLA Naval Aviation regiment conducted a midnight UAV nighttime reconnaissance exercise using the 'Zhiying' (鸢影) UAV, embedding randomized complex special situations (复杂特情) to stress-test crew emergency response and inter-position coordination under maritime …
A brigade of the 73rd Group Army has institutionalized a program called the 'Red Lecture Hall,' in which individual soldiers—such as aviation mechanic Cai Zhengqian—return from leave at red-themed historical sites and deliver ideological talks to their unit, s…
The PLA Southern Theater Command conducted maritime and aerial joint exercises (海空联合演训) around Huangyan Island on August 1, framed here as a direct response to the Philippines drawing territorial sea baselines around the feature. The article, published under t…
The PLA Air Force released a promotional preview for Episode 4 of its ideological-interpretation multimedia series 'Winning' (制胜), teasing footage of a live-combat-condition confrontation exercise (实战化对抗演习), plateau radar troops conducting emergency fault repa…
Li Can, a staff officer in a bureau of the Central Theater Command Joint Staff Department, is one of 12 officers named by the Central Propaganda Department and the CMC Political Work Department as 'Most Beautiful Revolutionary Soldiers of the New Era' on the P…