At the height of the winter, while visiting a frontier regiment in Inner Mongolia for news coverage, the reporters noticed a new type of patrol vehicle newly distributed to the frontier companies there.

　　The frontier regiment the reporters visited is responsible for keeping up constant guard and patrol over a thousand-kilometer-long frontier sector in which terrain is complex and natural conditions are harsh. Early this year, the higher level allocated 8 new patrol vehicles to the regiment. This new type of patrol vehicle has very nice cross-country capability, and the video reconnaissance system installed on the vehicle can transmit real-time frontier information back to the regiment headquarters. In addition, the vehicle can generate electricity for cooking purpose, and the air conditioning system on the vehicle be enables the inside of the vehicle as warm as spring even if the outside temperature plummets to minus 30 degrees Celsius in the Gobi Desert.

　　By Zhang Ruifeng and He Baohua

　　(Feb 12, PLA Daily)