Scanning of the military parade to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the founding of the People’s Liberation Army.
Xinhua News Agency reporters Mei Changwei, Fan Yongqiang and Chen Xi.
Smoke rises in the north of Saibei and there are more soldiers on the battlefield.
On July 30th, 12,000 officers and men who participated in actual combat training at Zhurihe Training Base took to the parade ground for review in a fighting manner.
The sound is like a thousand rides, and the mountains are full of gas. Under the solemn guidance of party flag, the national flag and the military flag, the troops being read were grouped into nine battle groups according to their operations, and the open space was read as a whole, showing great power and grandeur, spreading out a grand plan of strengthening the army with vigor and vitality.
A new pattern and a new look, this is a brand-new appearance after the overall and revolutionary reform and reshaping of the people’s army.
New equipment, new lineup, this is the concentrated display of the compound development of mechanization and informatization of the people’s army.
Land combat group: new army, global offensive and defensive.
Ten armed helicopters took the lead in the air, followed by 18 transport helicopters, accompanied by eight armed helicopters, equipped with elite forces to carry out the landing … …
The People’s Army, which once had to race against enemy car wheels on two legs, roared in a "flying" posture. A brand-new force — — Air assault troops have gloriously joined the people’s army battle sequence.
Iron wings fly and iron flows roll. In this round of reform, there are also a heavy synthetic brigade belonging to 04A tracked combat vehicle and a medium-sized synthetic brigade belonging to 08 wheeled combat vehicle … … The reform has given a new formation to heroic troops, and also activated the source of victory for a new type of powerhouse facing the future.
All-round informationization, all-time domain attack, all-regional maneuver and all-round comprehensive protection … … The compound development of mechanization and informatization of weapons and equipment has injected strong impetus into building a powerful modern new army. China’s land combat forces are changing rapidly from quantitative scale to quality efficiency, and from regional defense to global combat.
Information warfare group: electromagnetic sword, new quality combat power
Information Support Team, Electronic Reconnaissance Team, Electronic Countermeasure Team, UAV Team — — Compared with the majestic and domineering land combat group, the four teams that make up the information combat group are introverted and mysterious.
In the future battlefield where information power is the core combat power, this new combat force is an important strategic support for safeguarding national security and winning the electromagnetic space.
The forces referred to this time include both the cutting-edge information warfare from the strategic support forces and the electronic countermeasures from the army in the central theater; There are not only electronic reconnaissance vehicles that help seize the initiative in the battlefield in complex electromagnetic environment, but also new drones that can destroy the enemy’s early warning and detection, command and communication system.
In future operations, information will prevail. As an important growth point of our army’s new combat capability, the information combat force will continue to write the new glory of the people’s army from victory to victory in an unprecedented way.
Special operations group: elite soldiers fight and make enemy sharp knives.
In wartime, reconnaissance and attack; At ordinary times, seal control and arrest — — The special forces who fought against the enemy, from the beginning of their birth, shouldered a unique combat mission.
"Special forces, special people, special will, special soul." The officers and men who make up the special forces team mainly come from the only plateau special combat unit of the whole army. All of them are proficient in various weapons and equipment, and have various combat skills such as skydiving, airborne landing, rock climbing, diving, driving, fighting, etc., and can achieve three-dimensional attack, quick fight and quick withdrawal in the alpine mountain environment.
Extraordinary skills require extraordinary tools. New special warfare equipment, such as light all-terrain vehicles, wheeled light reconnaissance vehicles and protective assault vehicles, have become sharp knives to help special forces dare to fight and win.
Air defense and anti-missile battle group: spear and shield are strong, defending the air and sky.
Highly mobile three-coordinate radar — — Strategic outpost of national air defense system; Hongqi-9b, Hongqi-－22— — New equipment for air defense and anti-missile operations; Gun system — — Important strategic goal, the last line of defense for air safety.
The early warning radar team, the ground-to-air missile team and the artillery system team composed of them form a firepower system that combines far, medium and short range and combines high, medium and low altitude, marking the overall improvement of our army’s air defense and anti-missile capabilities under the conditions of informationization.
From the air to the sky, the system fights. China’s ground air defense force, which once could only rely on machine guns, anti-aircraft guns and searchlights to confront enemy planes, has expanded its combat capability to a higher frontier, firmly guarding the air and space security of the motherland.
Maritime combat group: striding deep blue, winning the battle against the sea and the sky
In this military parade, Haihongqi-9B ship-to-air missile and Eagle Strike-－12A ship-to-ship missile formed the first naval missile team, and Eagle Strike-－83K air-to-ship missile and Eagle Strike-－62A shore-to-ship missile formed the second naval missile team, which came on behalf of the people’s navy under the guidance of the Marine Corps team.
At the same time, China naval escort fleet and long-distance visiting fleet crossed the ocean to watch peace and tranquility and spread cooperation and friendship.
Go to the far sea and stride deep blue. In the near future, with the official entry of the second aircraft carrier, new guided missile destroyers and other landmark equipment, the pace of building a world-class navy by the People’s Navy will surely become more solid.
Air combat group: strategic transformation, molting and flying high
This is a concentrated display of the main battle aircraft of the People’s Army in the air — —
Air Police-2000 early warning aircraft, Air Police-500 early warning aircraft, Yun-8 finger plane, H-6K strategic bomber, Yun-20 large military transport aircraft, J-－10B, J-15, J-20, J-16, J-－11B… …
There are 52 aircraft of 14 types in 5 categories, covering various fields such as early warning and command, long-range strike, strategic delivery, refueling and endurance, and air combat. The fourth generation supersonic stealth fighter J-20 appeared in the parade ground, marking a solid step for the People’s Air Force to achieve the goal of air and space integration, both offensive and defensive.
The flight trajectory extends to the training ground, and a networked command information system integrating intelligence support network, combat command network and weapon control network supports the wings of a great country that is poised to take off.
Those who change their feathers should fly far. China’s air combat forces are undergoing a historic strategic transformation and flying to higher and further space.
Comprehensive support group: joint war and joint insurance, the system wins
"Keeping the traffic open means winning the battle", "The soldiers and horses have not moved, and the grain and grass come first", "The support force is the fighting capacity" and "Open the road on every mountain and bridge the bridge when encountering water" … … Every slogan is a declaration of battle.
A comprehensive support group consisting of information and communication support team, engineering anti-chemical support team, logistics support team and equipment support team appeared in the parade ground on behalf of the latest development level of our army’s joint operational support.
Communication equipment with full-time, global and full-frequency communication support capabilities, engineering chemical defense equipment with good maneuverability and strong operational capability, and newly established joint logistics support force, emergency repair equipment that can adapt to complex battlefield environment — — Together, they constitute a new force for the integrated joint guarantee of our army and become an important support for the victory of the people’s army system.
Anti-terrorism and stability group: loyal guardian, just iron fist
The anti-terrorism and stability group, which was reviewed on behalf of the Armed Police Force, came from the prestigious Falcon Commando.
On April 9th, 2014, President Xi personally named the Falcon Commando and awarded the flag. Since then, this anti-terrorism professional force has aimed at "building a world-class anti-terrorism special warfare force" and launched a bloody assault.
Extreme fighting, wilderness survival, cliff climbing, special driving, diving blasting … … A series of difficult and high-risk subjects with the characteristics of suppressing violence and fighting terrorism have honed officers and men into "the blade of a steel knife and the blade of a sword."
In recent years, they have successfully completed security tasks for major events such as world internet conference in Wuzhen, Boao Forum for Asia, G20 Summit in Hangzhou and the "Belt and Road" international cooperation summit forum.
Strategic strike group: both nuclear and regular, and the whole region is afraid of war.
On the last day of 2015, China’s strategic missile force changed its name from the Second Artillery Corps to the Rocket Force, and began a new step of leaping transformation.
New services, new image, new capabilities. The type-5 missile equipment read by the Rocket Force includes Dongfeng-16, which can accurately strike key enemy targets, Dongfeng-26, which can launch across regions without support, carry out rapid nuclear counterattack and conventional medium-and long-range precision strikes, Dongfeng-－21D, a land-based ballistic missile that strikes ship targets, and strategic nuclear missiles, which fully demonstrate China’s strategic balance ability of stopping wars and winning wars.
Both nuclear and regular, the whole world is afraid of war. The heroic rocket army that started a new journey built an indestructible peace shield.
History is magnificent; Times, the wind and the clouds will meet. An army can only be strong through innovation and win through change.
Today, the people’s army, which has gone through 90 years of stormy journey, unswervingly follows the road of strengthening the army with China characteristics and strides forward on the great journey of achieving the goal of strengthening the army and building a world-class army.