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Exercises
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Coast Guard
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Political Work
2026年8月上旬国防部例行新闻发布
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 Guard running parallel rights-protection...
South China Sea
Exercises
Coast Guard
【双语】国防部：中国军队坚决反制任何闹海挑衅图谋
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' (严正警告) and 'necessary measure to...
South China Sea
Doctrine
Political Work
军营观察丨青春的故事，垒成一座“精神礁盘”
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 Excellence Work' (2025强军正能量网络精品) and was...
South China Sea
Exercises
Coast Guard
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 direct response to the Philippines...
South China Sea
Exercises
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 established pattern of using named joint drills...
East China Sea
Military Diplomacy
【双语】日本“再军事化”妄动是地区和平稳定的真正威胁
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 using a fabricated regional threat...
Exercises
Doctrine
Nuclear
“地下龙宫”的胜战答卷——来自火箭军某旅的观察报告
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 endurance drills lasting dozens of...
Exercises
Military Diplomacy
【双语】中白将举行“神鹰-2026”空降兵联合训练
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-control, and clearance-and-elimination...
Exercises
Military Diplomacy
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-surveillance, seizure-and-control, and...
Exercises
Modernization
空军某旅加快数智转型提升运输投送保障质效
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 plan generation, replacing a manual...
Exercises
Military Diplomacy
我海军83舰编队结束对印度尼西亚友好访问
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 comprehensive training and visit mission...
Exercises
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 exercise; its value is as a baseline...
Exercises
Political Work
三伏探哨丨密林深处：干部“钉”在最前沿
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 evasion, and a two-person capture drill...
Exercises
Internal Security
成长的弹道，要靠我们自己一点点校准
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 Marksmen' Challenge (全军'神枪手'比武), crediting a...
Modernization
Doctrine
Political Work
国防部：推动基本实现国防和军队现代化取得决定性进展
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 reiterates three standing definitional...
Modernization
Political Work
最美新时代革命军人风采丨军事航天部队某部军士高德宝：无名山上的守望者
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 component's service life to more than...
Modernization
Doctrine
军校课堂探索新路，让人工智能真正成为“教学搭档”
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 Generative AI Works Innovation Competition, a...
Modernization
Political Work
国防部：向为国铸盾的国防科技工作者致敬
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 Propaganda Department for his work on...
Doctrine
Political Work
别让会议流于形式，从“三推会期”看基层解难的实干密码
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 battalions and companies. The article...
Doctrine
Political Work
强军论坛丨用精武定义军人之美
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 Qiaoyun, and cyber-information domain...
Political Work
一次体能补测的启示：带兵育人，贵在唤醒战士心里那簇火苗
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 assessment of the five general military...
Political Work
王戟先进事迹启示录丨唯有热爱，可赴山海
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 the model of Party loyalty for the...
Political Work
一把梯子，撑起连队的凝聚力与向心力
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 alongside enlisted soldiers rather than...
Personnel
Internal Security
警士晋级考核，看他们如何“闯关升级”？
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 standard PAP enlisted...
