银川8月9日电 -- “西部·联合-2021”演习9日上午在宁夏某合同战术训练基地正式拉开帷幕。中央军委委员、军委联合参谋部参谋长李作成担任演习总导演，出席演习开始仪式，并宣布演习开始命令。
YINCHUAN, Aug. 9 -- The exercise ZAPAD/INTERACTION-2021 kicked off at a combined arms tactical training base of the PLA Army in Qingtongxia City of West China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region. General Li Zuocheng, member of China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) and Chief of the CMC Joint Staff Department, attended the launch ceremony as the chief conductor of the exercise and officially announced the commencement.
演习开始仪式上，两军参演官兵按作战编成编组13个地面方队、2个空中梯队，接受沙场检阅。随后，联合指挥部指挥员、西部战区副司令员刘小午，联合指挥部副指挥员、俄军东部军区副司令诺苏列夫分别致辞。
Participating troops from both sides formed 13 ground phalanxes and two air echelons to parade at the launch ceremony. Lieutenant General Liu Xiaowu, deputy commander of the PLA Western Theater Command and commanding officer of the Chinese participating troops, and his Russian counterpart, deputy commander of Russia’s Eastern Military District addressed the ceremony respectively.
这次演习旨在拓展中俄两军联合反恐作战领域深度，展示共同维护国际和地区安全稳定的坚定决心和强大实力，体现了中俄新时代全面战略协作伙伴关系的新高度，体现了两国高度战略互信和务实交流协作的新水平，体现了两军官兵不受时空阻隔、不受疫情影响的牢固友谊，展现了新时代大国演兵的新气象。
The exercise aims to expand the depth of joint counter terrorism efforts of the Chinese and Russian militaries and demonstrates the firm determination and strong ability of both sides to jointly safeguard international and regional peace and security. It also marks that the China-Russia comprehensive strategic partnership, bilateral strategic mutual trust and pragmatic exchange and cooperation have reached a new height in the new era. Moreover, it testifies to the solid friendship of the two militaries beyond the limits of COVID-19, demonstrating a new look of military exercises conducted by major countries in the new era.
这次演习以联合维护地区安全稳定为课题，军委成立导演部，构建“导演部—联合指挥部—参演部队”三级组织指挥体系，区分联合筹划、陆上进攻2个阶段组织实施。
The exercise focuses on jointly maintaining regional security and stability. China’s Central Military Commission (CMC) formed a directing department, and established a three-level commanding system comprised of “the headquarters, joint command, and participating troops” to carry out the exercise in two phases of joint planning and land attack.
第一阶段重点演练联合指挥部判断情况、磋商方案、定下决心、组织协同等内容；第二阶段重点演练展开联合作战布势，对敌实施饱和火力突击，综合毁瘫敌作战体系，纵深清剿追歼残敌。
The first phase will focus on the judgment, consultation, decision-making and coordination capacities of the joint command, and the second phase on the joint operations training, such as conducting saturation attacks, destroying the enemy’s operation system, and annihilating the remnants of the enemy forces.
