For several days running, the armament support team jointly formed by such military and civilian units as troops under the South Xinjiang Military Command, auto repair workshops, mechanical workshops and militia ordnance repair workshops conducted an armament support exercise in a close to war setting and wrapped it up after maneuvering and passing through over 3,000 km. It's said that this is the first military-civilian joint field armament support exercise held in an area of ice-covered mountains and gorges with an altitude of above 4,000 m.

　　The aim of the exercise is to test eight theoretical research results like "deployment of support group, maneuvering in mountains, concealment and protection, accompanying rush repair" and to find out experience through on-the-spot and full-geared exercises. In order to make the battlefield environment true to real war, they insisted on providing field living support by relying on the vehicle-mounted kitchen, heat preservation tent and oxygen bag, and on arranging such subjects as encountering the air raid of the enemy, evacuation and concealment as well as deep thrust and making detour to temper the troop's capabilities in marching, fighting, eating, camping, supplying and repairing under complicated and difficult situations as crossing icy rivers, treading through snow covered mountains while overcoming such difficulties as oxygen-deficiency on plateau, mountains landslip obstacles on the roads, snow storms and huge temperature difference between days and nights.

　　By Huang Jun and Li Yuanjun