Chinese and Indian officers review soldiers after a military drill which is the last stage of the five-day training near Kunming, capital of southwest China's Yunnan Province, Dec. 25, 2007. Chinese and Indian armies concluded their first-ever joint anti-terrorism military training with a three-hour military drill in southwest China Tuesday morning.

　　KUNMING, Dec. 25 (Xinhua) -- The first-ever Sino-Indian joint anti-terrorism military training was successful, a senior Chinese military official said here on Tuesday.

　　During the five-day military training, soldiers from Chinese and Indian armies treated each other with sincerity, learned from each other, and demonstrated their special skills and strong anti-terror attainment, said Lieutenant General Ma Xiaotian, head of the Chinese military observer delegation.

　　Ma, also deputy chief of the General Staff of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China, made the remarks at a press conference following the conclusion of the joint manoeuver in this capital city of the southwestern Yunnan Province.

　　The training, code-named "Hand-in-Hand 2007", helped improve the troops' anti-terror combat ability and will play an active role in enhancing mutual understanding and trust and deepening exchanges and cooperation in defense field between the two sides, Ma said.

　　China will continue to push forward military exchanges and cooperation with India in an effort to safeguard regional security and stability, said Ma, pledging that the moves will be carried on in the spirit of mutual respect, equal consultation and mutual benefits to contribute to the building of a harmonious region with long-lasting peace and common prosperity.

　　Promoting military communication and cooperation will play an important role in developing strategic partnership of the two neighbors, also the leading developing nations in the world, Ma noted.

　　He recalled a number of bilateral military exchanges in recent years, including official visits, meetings on defense and safety issues, and searching and rescue manoeuver on the sea, saying they reflected the common efforts and desire of both sides in deepening cooperation.

　　Ma said that anti-terror joint military drills initiated by China and other countries were carried out amid the increasing threat of terrorism internationally.

　　The exercises, which are conducive to deterring the "three evil forces" of terrorism, separatism and extremism, and building a harmonious world, "do not aim at any third party or pose threat to any other country", Ma said, stressing that the drills were not held to pursue the formation of military allies.

　　Ma reaffirmed that China insists on promoting the establishment of a harmonious world with everlasting peace and common prosperity through the hard work of peoples of all countries.

　　The Sino-Indian anti-terrorism military training, which began on Friday morning, was held to implement the provisions of the Memorandum of Understanding for Exchanges and Cooperation in the Field of Defense signed between the defense ministries of China and India on May 29, 2006.

　　Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Qin Gang has said that the military training was intended to enhance mutual understanding and trust and strengthen bilateral exchanges in the field of anti-terrorism, deter the "three evil forces", and promote the development of the bilateral strategic partnership.