China will organize a military parade on Place Tian’anmen, in the city center of Beijing on September 3 to mark the 80th anniversary of the victory of the Chinese people’s war of resistance against Japanese aggression and the world’s anti-fascist war.
President Xi Jinping will review the troops during the parade, which will be held as part of a large gathering to commemorate this anniversary.
Mr. XI, also secretary general of the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party and president of the Central Military Commission, will give a speech during this rally.
The military parade features walking training, armored columns and aerial squadrons, presenting both the main traditional combat forces and those of new areas with new combat capacities, explained Wu Zeke, superior officer of the interarmed military commission department, during a press conference held on Tuesday.
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All the equipment that will be presented is produced by China and currently in service, he noted.
In addition to the latest generation conventional weapons, the parade will present new-type combat capacities, such as intelligent unanswered systems, submarine combat units, cybernetic and electronic forces and hypersonic weapons, demonstrating the strong capacity of the Chinese army to adapt to technological tendencies and the evolution of war and to prevail in future wars.
