Central Theater Command - ARMED FORCES

16th batch of Chinese peacekeeping engineer contingent to Sudan sets out

Approved by the Central Military Commission (CMC), the first echelon of 110 members of the 16th Chinese peacekeeping engineer contingent to Darfur, Sudan left Beijing Capital International Airport on the evening of August 11 for their mission area in Sudan to perform its 5-month peacekeeping mission.

Chinese military support medical, daily necessity supplies in virus-hit Wuhan

China's armed forces have played a role in supporting medical and daily necessity supplies in the city of Wuhan, as part of the country's sweeping efforts to fight the novel coronavirus outbreak.

PLA dispatches helicopters to deliver medical supplies in coronavirus-hit Wuhan

The PLA Central Theater Command dispatched two Z-8 transport helicopters to deliver badly needed medical drugs and materials from Wuhan to Xiangyang and Yichang on the morning of February 12, 2020.

Superfast hospital in Wuhan ready

A 1,000-bed hospital in Wuhan, Hubei province, will begin receiving highly contagious pneumonia patients on Monday, less than 10 days after construction began.

PLA mobilizes planes for medical transport

The People's Liberation Army Air Force used eight of its large transport planes on Sunday morning to ferry medics and supplies from the military to Wuhan, capital of Hubei province and epicenter of the novel coronavirus outbreak.

PLA gives full support to civil efforts to win anti-virus battle

A train loaded with the first batch emergency medical supplies allocated by the Chinese military from Shenyang of Liaoning Province and Heze of Shandong Province arrived in the Hankou railway station in Wuhan, Hubei Province on Sunday morning.

15,000 military personnel to partake in National Day parade

The military parade for the upcoming National Day celebrations, which will take place in Beijing on Oct. 1, will involve around 15,000 military personnel, according to a group interview held by the office of the leading group for the military parade in Beijing Tuesday.

China send more troops to fight forest fires in Shanxi

A forest fire broke out in Qinyuan county, northern China's Shanxi Province on March 29. The Chinese PLA Central Theater Command sent more troops to Qinyuan county in order to help local fire departments to bring the fire under control.

Five official hospitals unveiled for Military World Games

Five official hospitals for the 7th Military World Games were unveiled by Wuhan Municipal Health Commission in Wuhan on Saturday.