Under a starry night sky on the South China Sea, I saw a sailor sitting alone on the deck of a warship toying with a Rubik’s Cube. After a while, his hands fell still and his gaze fixed on the dark-blue horizon.
2016-09-19
The "Joint Sea-2016" military drill between China and Russia is reaching a climax as the red and blue teams conducted their first "back to back" combat operations including joint air defense and joint anti-submarine drills on September 17.
2016-09-18
China dispatched an infantry battalion to South Sudan in 2014 for a UN peacekeeping mission. These soldiers have faced danger to fulfill China's promise to take a more prominent peacekeeping role - with some even giving their lives.
2016-09-08
In China, military camps are part of a nationwide training network in which 50 million Chinese children aged 9 to 18 receive a brief army-style education.
2016-09-08
Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said on August 26 that Cambodia has nothing to do with South China Sea. His country is not Vietnam's puppet and will not serve Vietnam's interests.
2016-08-31
The brigade established China's first female missile launch company in 2011, recruiting about 35 young soldiers, mainly for handling tactical ballistic missiles. Current members have an average age of 24.
2016-08-28
The PLA Air Force conducted two patrols over the Huangyan Island, which had something to do with the so-called South China Sea arbitration and also demonstrated Chinese military's stance that it is able to conduct effective management and control in the region.
2016-08-25
Flanked by his ever-watchful nurse and carer, 101-year-old Red Army veteran Wang Chengdeng slowly but surely made his way towards an applauding Chinese media pack.
2016-08-23
Anti-missile test technology is advancing every second and all of the world's major powers are accelerating their development. If our technology is a little stagnant, China will not secure its place at the world area, let alone the capacity to win a war.
2016-08-22
Quantum physics is the study of the basic building blocks of the world at a scale smaller than atoms. These tiny particles behave in a way that could overturn assumptions of how the world works.
2016-08-16
Participants in the Asian Pacific arms race find themselves in a security dilemma-their military scale-up even for defense purpose would be considered a threat by other countries that they need to respond to. Such a race poses a security dilemma that the involved nations find hard to stay away from.
2016-08-12
The Chinese PLA Aviation is a vital component of the ground force, an important mark of the ground force transforming from flat to three-dimensional, and a key support in building a modern and strong army.
2016-08-06
Can there be a wedding if there is no red carpet, bouquet, stage lighting, music or even the most important thing, the ring?
2016-07-12
There are about 140 million military fans in China, including 2 million core military fans and 100,000 military fans with special military knowledge. Military fans accounted for about 15% of Chinese netizens.
2016-06-22
The new H-6K bombers of the PLA Air Force flew several thousand kilometers for nearly 10 straight hours during a recent drill. They set a new record for continuous flight time and range while flying over the sea.
2016-06-06
Since China started to join UN peacekeeping operations in Lebanon in 2006, Chinese peacekeepers have cleared more than 2,000 landmines and more than 1,500 unexploded ordnances with no casualties in the past 10 years.
2016-06-12
Readers have many questions about the Yongxing Island. What kind of island is it? Is it militarized? What do the Chinese troops stationed on the island look like? Are the military deployments on the Yongxing Island necessary? With these questions in mind, our journalist Guo Yuandan recently went to the Xisha Islands to find out a true Yongxing Island.
2016-04-21