Xi stresses boosting military modernization

On Wednesday Chinese President Xi Jinping made the inspection tour ahead of China's Army Day, which falls on 1st August. Xi has stressed the need to speed up efforts to boost the modernization of the armed forces. Xi made the remarks in Sichuan Province while inspecting the air force of the Western Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

As China's Army Day is approaching, Xi extended sincere greetings to all the officers and soldiers of the air force of the command, as well as festival greetings to service personnel of the PLA and the People's Armed Police Force, civilian personnel posted in the military, and members of militia and reserve forces.Xi also called for continuous efforts to carry out training under real combat conditions.