BEIJING, June 9 -- Recently, around 1,000 service members assigned to an artillery detachment of a combined arms brigade under the 71st Group Army, together with hundreds of vehicles and various types of weaponry, maneuvered over two thousand kilometers from the plain area in east China's Jiangsu Province to the Gobi Desert in northwest China, by means of railway transportation and motorized march in different batches, for a cross-regional live-fire drill.