Lieutenant General Shailesh Tinaikar, Commander of the United Nations Mission in South Sudan, recently granted the collective commendation at the highest level for UNMISS forces to 36 members of the 6th Chinese peacekeeping infantry battalion to South Sudan.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Garrison in Macao held flag-raising ceremonies to celebrate the 21st anniversary of Macao's return to the motherland on December 20, 2020.
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), has signed an order releasing trial regulations on military professional education for armed forces.
Eighteen individuals and two groups selected from among China's retired military personnel have received awards for their contributions to the country's development.
It is learnt that multiple functions integrated in the new system include rapid complaints and proposals collection, remote video interviews, process monitoring, etc., making the whole complains handling procedures fully covered, transparent, and traceable.
An air assault brigade under the PLA 75th Group Army conducted an air-ground integration exercise simulating the securing of an airfield recently.
A PLA Navy's landing ship smoothly berthed at a ro-ro dock at the Port of Qingdao in Northeast China on December 15, marking the first military and civilian dual-use dock's official operation .
Despite the COVID-19 pandemic, 2020 has seen China realize its intermediate goal for national defense and military development.
Xi Jinping, chairman of the Central Military Commission, has signed an order to release a set of newly-revised military metrology regulations.
Xi Jinping, chairman of the CMC, on Friday presented four military and armed police officers with certificates of order promoting them to the rank of general, the highest rank for officers in active service in China.
Eight military and local authorities have implemented a special operation to jointly crack down upon the illegal manufacture and sale of military uniforms since July this year.
The PLA Navy's Nansha Garrison has recently begun to try on the new-type camouflage combat uniforms specially designed for the troops in the tropical areas.
At the annual conference of China Association for Quality, held on December 11 in Beijing, the first domestically-built aircraft carrier construction project, conducted by the Dalian Shipbuilding Industry under China State Shipbuilding Co., was awarded the Excellent Project Award of the 19th China Quality Award.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Thursday congratulated the complete success of the Chang'e-5 mission that brings back the country's first samples collected from the moon.
Since the beginning of this winter, the Chinese PLA Tibet Military Command has conducted thorough surveys on the demand of the frontier troops and spared no efforts to solve problems related to power supply, drinking water, heating, oxygen supply, healthcare and toileting to ensure winter supplies for troops stationed on the plateau.
Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe and Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu held a video conference and signed a protocol on the extension of the agreement between China and Russia on notifications of ballistic missile and carrier rocket launches on December 15, 2020.
The Equipment Development Department (EDD) of China's Central Military Commission (CMC) recently launched the regulations on third-party service management for equipment prices, intending to establish a formal and orderly equipment pricing work order.
The Science and Technology Commission (STC) of the Central Military Commission (CMC) hosted a reception day on national defense science and technology innovation for the third time in Beijing on December 13.
The International Committee on Military Medicine (ICMM) Beijing Symposium hosted by the Academy of Military Medical Sciences under the PLA Academy of Military Sciences was held in early December.
Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister General Wei Fenghe held video talks with Japanese Defense Minister Nobuo Kishi on Monday afternoon.
Twenty-one memorial halls of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression in China formed an alliance to remember war histroy and cherish peace.
The Memorial Hall of the Victory of the Chinese People's War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression and the Acceptance of the Japanese Surrender in Zhijiang Dong Autonomous County, Huaihua City, Hunan Province, announced the new collection of 31 cultural relics on December 12.
A brigade of the PLA airborne troops organized a phase assessment on the airborne training for new recruits in late November. Its commanding officer introduced that it was the first time for the brigade to use the VR airborne simulation training system on a large scale in the airborne training for new recruits.
Chinese people keep history firmly in their minds, never forget the past, cherish peace and look to the future, said a senior Communist Party of China (CPC) official on Sunday, noting that China is committed to the path of peaceful development.
Chinese President Xi Jinping on Saturday announced the country's further commitments for 2030 to contribute more to tackling the global climate challenge, when addressing the Climate Ambition Summit via video link.
The 7th Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Defense Ministers' Meeting-Plus took place via video link on Thursday.
The 11th China-EU defense and security policy dialogue was held via video link on December 10. The EU side highly commented on this candid and practical dialogue, during which several consensuses have been made.
Various new-type logistic equipment and materials deployed by the Chinese PLA provides an all-round guarantee for the training and living of front-line service members.
Always keeping the people in mind, a border defense regiment under the PLA Tibet Military Command decided to make their hyperbaric oxygen chamber available to local herders.
Recently the 19th Chinese peacekeeping multi-function engineering contingent to Lebanon successfully carried out the disposal and destruction of expired ammunition for friendly peacekeeping troops in Naqoura of south Lebanon.
"China firmly opposes US arms sales to Taiwan and urges the US to immediately cancel the projects of selling weapons to Taiwan," said Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang, spokesperson for China's Ministry of National Defense (MND) on Tuesday night.
Attending the 14th ASEAN Defense Ministers' Meeting, the Chinese State Councilor and Defense Minister Wei Fenghe said that China and countries from the Association of Southeast Asian Nations have the wisdom and ability to properly handle the South China Sea issue and jointly safeguard the peace and stability in the region.
Military and civilian departments in Chongqing Municipality and Sichuan Province jointly launched a large-scale drill for environmental emergencies in the Jialing River basin of southwest China on November 26.
The 7th Beijing College Wargaming Competition concluded on December 6. Two college students from the Beijing University of Chinese Medicine won the championship after six days of competition.
The Chinese air force's troops set off on Dec. 7 for the Pakistani Air Force’s air base in Bholari to participate in the China-Pakistan Joint Air Force Exercise "Shaheen (Eagle) - IX".
A composite brigade held a live-fire drill in temperatures as low as minus 20 degrees Celsius. The drill took place in the largest military base in China, the Zhurihe Training Base in Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. In the drill, the brigade fired HQ-17 surface-to-air missiles.
Recently, a province-wide militia skills contest was held in Zhoushan, a coastal city in East China's Zhejiang province.
China Coast guard forces in south China's Fujian Province successfully busted a major case involving the illegal mining of sea sand after more than six months of investigation in cooperation with the Fujian Provincial Department of Public Security recently.
The first echelon's 350 peacekeepers of the Chinese 7th peacekeeping infantry battalion to South Sudan departed on December 3 from north China's Tianjin Municipality for a one-year peacekeeping mission.
President Xi Jinping met Friday with representatives attending a conference on ideological and political education work in the military, which was held from Thursday to Friday.