The reviewing platform became the stage, the drilling ground became an open theater, while tanks and combat vehicles were turned to audience seats. Yesterday, nearly 10,000 officers and men from the Chinese and Russian armed forces taking part in the "Peace Mission 2005" China-Russia Joint Military Exercise watched a large-scaled entertainment performance themed the "Song of Peace" in Weifang.

　　The drilling ground was permeated with songs, and the national flags of China and Russia were fluttering in the glow of the sunset. Artists from the Song and Dance Troupe of the General Political Department of the PLA and the Pacific Fleet of Russia presented their most beautiful songs and dances to the officers and men of Chinese and Russian troops who had completed the exercise successfully. Peng Liyuan and Cai Guoqing sang songs in Russian, receiving warm applauses from the Russian officers and men. Songs and dances performed by Russian artists enabled the Chinese soldiers to forget their tiredness of drilling. As darkness fell, lights from the war vehicles illuminated the stage, and the drilling ground became a sea of joy.

　　By Wei Wei

　　(Aug. 26, PLA Daily)