Female artillery soldiers assigned to a missile platoon with an air-defense brigade under the PLA Xinjiang Military Command operate a crane to hoist and load HQ-16 medium-range air-defense missile systems onto a missile launching truck prior to a live-fire operation at a depopulated area in the southern part of the Tianshan Mountains in early September, 2019. (eng.chinamil.com.cn/Photo by Song Shilei and Huang Zongxing)
