'Joint Teaching 2012 Queshan' drill starts in Jinan

All personnel participating in the 'Joint Teaching 2012 Queshan' joint drill from 19 colleges and academies, scientific research institutions and combat troop units of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) arrived at the combined tactics training base of the Jinan Military Area Command (MAC) in Queshan Mountain on the afternoon of June 6, 2012 by such military force projection ways as motorized maneuvering and railway maneuvering.

This joint drill involves four military services as the Army, the Navy, the Air Force and the Second Artillery Force, and four systems namely the military system, the political system, the logistics system and the armament system, 19 military colleges and academies of related majors, and 24 organizations of troop units, training bases and scientific research institutions.

The total strength for this joint drill reaches more than 3,000 persons, among whom 533 are cadets from the military colleges and academies.

The joint drill, taking the ground joint combat as the subject, will center on 5 training issues including joint organization and planning, joint fire attack, joint attacking and capturing fortress, joint maneuvering attack and annihilation and joint occupation and control, and use the combat command information system to conduct the command confrontation drill in such two phases as organization and planning and combat implementation.

According to Yang Baoyou, executive director of the joint drill and professor of the Campaign and Tactics Department of the Shijiazhuang Army Command College, the cadet command posts have been set up, the communication facilities and command system have been deployed and the joint directing department has conducted the training and deduction for about a week to date.

Starting from June 7, the participants of the joint drill will be organized to complete the drill grouping, conduct operation training for the combat command system and complete the drill preparations. The joint drill will be held from June 9 to 11. The theoretical discussions and joint drill result assessment will be held on June 12.

The "Joint Teaching 2012 Queshan" joint drill is the first all-factor and multi-dimensional "joint teaching and joint training" practice and exploration activity among the PLA colleges and academies as well as the troop units, which will provide practical experience for exploring the methods and ways for future comprehensive promotion of "joint teaching and joint training".