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Pak military cadets attended Int’l week in ChinaBreaking

December 01, 2018

BEIJING, Dec 01 (INP): Pakistan Military attended the 6th International Cadets Week in China for promoting bilateral and regional interaction to learning defence capability’s practices. A total of 31 cadets from militaries academies from 11 countries including Pakistan attended the 6th International Cadets Week (ICW) held in Nanjing, East China’s Jiangsu Province. The cadets from Pakistan, Brazil, Canada, Egypt, France, Japan, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, Thailand and Turkey attended this year’s event together with 73 Chinese cadets from 11 Chinese PLA academies. The week-long event aimed to provide a platform for cadets to have more exchanges and to learn and improve from each other was hosted by the PLA Army Engineering University, according to China’s Defense Ministry. ICW aimed to enhance understanding, to learn from each other, to cooperate and to create a shared future. The purpose has never changed. The world needs to know China and its military, and the Chinese military also needs to go on the international stage. These cadets live and undergo military exercises under the command of the PLA. Their training courses included gun shooting, indoor obstacle courses, field training, stimulation training of actions of the UN Peacekeeping Force and courses on Chinese traditional culture. Most of the foreign cadets came to China for the first time and their initial impressions of China differed widely. Meanwhile, A spokesperson of the Chinese Defence Ministry Senior Colonel Ren Guoqiang announced that China will further advance its military ties with Pakistan, as a part of joint efforts promoting their defence capability. While announcing this at a news briefing here, he said “China and Pakistan are all-weather strategic cooperative partners. The two militaries have been keeping a high-level defense and security cooperation. In the recently concluded Zhuhai Air Show, the Pakistani military also put on a good performance. The high-level cooperation and exchanges in different services between the two militaries show great mutual strategic trust between the two sides. We are positive about further advancing military relationship with Pakistan.” Ren Guoqiang told the reporters that Chinese and Pakistani Air Forces will begin their 7th Shahing Joint Air Force Exercise in Bholari Air Force Base, Pakistan this week. The Chinese side is sending fighters, fighter bombers and early warning aircraft to the exercise. This exercise is in the annual cooperation plan between the two countries and is a model of China-Pakistan Air Forces’ cooperation. This exercise will help promote bilateral air force cooperation and improve combat capabilities of both sides, he added. To a question, the spokesperson said, at the domestic front, China has been stressing training for combat-readiness and joint-operation and have conducted training in theater commands and quality training in different arms and services. “We also promote high standard training organized according to plans and have conducted more basic tactical training and strengthened the supervision over military training. The troops are showing unprecedented passion and a brand new look on training work has been observed across the military, he added.