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China reveals fewer troops, more armaments in celebration paradeCHINA presented fewer servicemen but showed more armaments to the world here Thursday morning in a grand military parade marking New China's 60th founding anniversary. Fifty-six phalanxes marched past or flew over Tian'anmen Square at the heart of Beijing, symbolizing China's 56 ethnic groups marching in solidarity along the road of socialism with Chinese characteristics. More than 8,000 soldiers of 32 ethnic groups participated in the formations, among which 14 marched through Chang'an Avenue on foot, 30 in wheeled transport and 12 air echelons. Compared with the 1999 military parade that involved more than10,000 servicemen, the number of formations marching on foot this year dropped from 17 to 14, phalanxes in wheeled transport rose from 25 to 30, while air echelons increased from 10 to 12. Four services of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) -- Army, Navy, Air Force and the Second Artillery Corps (SAC), joined the grand parade together with armed police and reserve duty units in a show of the complete establishment of China's armed forces. While reducing the number of parading servicemen, China uncovered more of its arms depot during the standing-in formation and the march-past event that lasted for about an hour. The military parade this year cut the number of on-foot formations by the Army but added those by other military services -- Navy, Air Force and the SAC. Regiments formed by special force, servicewomen and mobile radars, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) and airborne early warning and control (AEWC) aircraft made their debut in the parade this year. Fifty-two types of new weapon systems manufactured by China on its own were on display in this year's march-past event. China-made armaments on display included new main battle tanks, amphibious assault tanks, tracked infantry fighting vehicles (IFV), self-propelled guns, self-propelled mortar-howitzers, multiple launch rocket systems, wheeled tank destroyers and anti-tank missile launch vehicles. Among the highly watched Chinese armaments were the five phalanxes formed by 108 missiles, ranging from surface-to-surface conventional missiles to overland cruise missiles and intercontinental ballistic missiles. The air echelons, consisting of 151 aircraft like AEWC aircraft, J-11 fighters, J-10 fighter jets, bombers, aerial tankers, fighter-bombers, helicopters and training planes, flew over the Tian'anmen Square during the parade, up from 132 aircraft in 1999. shanghaidaily.com还有chinadaily.com还有很多很多

Conservation efforts in Inner Mongolia have spurred the northern region's development and benefited the national capital, top regional officials said yesterday in Beijing.The autonomous region, which is known as a major source of the seasonal sandstorms that blanket Beijing, has "done what it could" to curb ecological deterioration, Yang Jing, chairman of the regional government, said."Protecting the environment has been listed as Inner Mongolia's most important infrastructure project," Yang told a press conference organized by the State Council Information Office yesterday to mark the region's 60th anniversary."The number of sandstorms has fallen significantly in recent years, which favorably influences the weather in Beijing and Tianjin. "Inner Mongolia, which is some 300 km north of Beijing, has long been thought of as the capital's backyard. However, the distance is not enough to protect Beijing from the wind-borne dust and sand that blow down from the region.Dust blown in from western Inner Mongolia blanketed Beijing nearly two months ago, lowering visibility to 4 km from 20 km the previous day.Inner Mongolia has spent some 20 billion yuan ($2.7 billion) on efforts to halt desertification in an area measuring 16.7 million hectares over the past five years. It has also increased its forest coverage to 17.6 percent of its total area from 14.8 percent in 1999, Yang said.At least 3 billion yuan was earmarked to implement the massive "Beijing-Tianjin windblown sand sources control project" in a bid to build a green ecological belt in northern China, according to regional government sources.The project involves 458,000 sq km of land, about 48 percent of which lies in Inner Mongolia."There are several sources of sand and dust (affecting Beijing) besides Inner Mongolia. We have done what we could on our part," Yang said.Chu Bo, secretary of the regional committee of the Communist Party of China, said yesterday that 70 percent of the region's livestock has been confined to enclosed pastures to reduce the grazing pressure on grasslands.In addition to returning farmland to forests and reclaiming overgrazed pastures, Inner Mongolia has encouraged traditional pastoral areas to develop alternative industries.Citing Erdos as a success story, Chu said the city would have plunged into an ecological vicious circle had it not built up secondary and tertiary industries.As a result, the city of 1.4 million people is expected to have a gross domestic product of 100 billion yuan ($13 billion) this year, a level of prosperity that can only be found in the country's coastal regions, Chu said.Inner Mongolia is home to China's largest grasslands. The region spans 1.18 million sq km, which is about twice the size of Ukraine.不算太长吧。