Infrastructure construction strengthened

The frontier defense troop units in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region have vigorously strengthened the frontier defense combat-readiness infrastructure construction, and realized "full connection of information network, full layout of monitoring system, full completion of self-defense fortifications, complete support of training facilities, full enclosure of borders barbed wires and full connection of frontier defense patrol routes", effectively enhancing the management and control capabilities of frontier defense.

The Inner Mongolia Military Command (MC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has focused on strengthening the full connection and layout of information networks as well as the monitoring systems, integrated the monitoring systems comprising frontier defense, intelligence, communication and equipment with the mobile video monitoring equipment for patrol vehicle teams, and realized the all-weather, all-terrain and full-time frontier management and control.

The entire Inner Mongolia MC has currently completed over 8,000km of communication optic cables and more than 3,500km frontier defense highway, with 99% of the frontier companies having realized infrastructure support.

On the video screen of a frontier defense regiment's monitoring center, the reporters saw a patrolling element driving patrol vehicles along the frontier defense highway in the depths of the Xilin Gol Grassland hundreds of kilometers away. Its position coordinate, meteorological datum, duty situation and so forth were all displayed in real time on the screen of the monitoring center, with the images of its duty performance shown in synchronized switch. Lou Jianxin, commander of the regiment, said: "The information-sharing between the front and the rear has provided strong support for emergency handling and duty efficiency improvement".

By Chu Wenjie and Wang Zhonghui