The Individuals’s Liberation Military has despatched 10 of its feminine members to affix the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands within the South China Sea, in response to the PLA Navy.
The primary group of feminine members despatched by the Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) to affix the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands within the South China Sea is seen on this image taken on December 11, 2017. [Photo by Li Tang for chinadaily.com.cn]
The ten ladies are officers and sergeants with a mean age of 23. All of them have a college diploma, the discharge stated, including they’ve been assigned to a variety of posts reminiscent of workers, communications and medical service.

The primary group of feminine members despatched by the Individuals’s Liberation Military (PLA) to affix the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands within the South China Sea is seen on this image taken on December 11, 2017. [Photo by Li Tang for chinadaily.com.cn]
Zhang Jiahong, political commissar of the PLA Nansha Islands Garrison, was quoted by the discharge as saying that these feminine members can be despatched again to the mainland each a number of months for relaxation to make sure their well being.
Zhou Yaling, one of many ladies, stated Nansha is extra lovely than what that they had imagined. “There are airports, harbors, streets, hospitals and sporting grounds. All of them make the islands like a lovely city on the sea,” she was quoted as saying within the launch.
Earlier than them, there have been feminine PLA members on the islands however they had been in brief missions and nonetheless took orders from models that despatched them there, the China Day by day reporter discovered.