In the "camping village", officers and men from the member countries of the SCO participating in the "Peace Mission 2007" joint military exercise have established profound friendship through days of living and training together. The picture shows Chinese soldiers teaching Russian soldiers Chinese.

　　The PLA began to all-roundly participate in the joint military exercises in early 1980s.

　　In October 2002, China held a joint anti-terror military exercise with Kyrgyzstan. It indicated the first actual-troop exercise that Chinese troops held jointly with foreign troops. It is learned that since 2002, the PLA has successively held 18 joint military exercises of varied types with related countries. Of which, more influential exercises include the joint military exercise codenamed "Peace Mission 2005" held in August 2005 by Chinese and Russian armed forces in Vladivostock, Russia and Shandong, China, and the joint anti-terror military exercise codenamed "Peace Mission 2007" sponsored by the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) and conducted by the armed forces of all the member countries of the SCO in China and Russia in August 2007.

　　In September and November 2006, Chinese and U.S. navies held the first maritime joint rescue exercise in the history of both countries in the sea areas off San Diego, US, and in the South China Sea, which wrote a thick stroke in deepening the military exchanges between the two countries.