The Folks’s Liberation Military has despatched 10 of its feminine members to affix the garrison guarding the Nansha Islands within the South China Sea, in keeping with the PLA Navy.
The Navy stated in a information launch Monday afternoon that this has been the primary time for feminine service members to be stationed on Nansha Islands, the nation’s southernmost territories. They formally began engaged on Yongshu Reef from Monday.
The ten girls are officers and sergeants with a median age of 23. All of them have a college diploma, the discharge stated, including they’ve been assigned to a variety of posts akin to employees, communications and medical service.
Zhang Jiahong, political commissar of the PLA Nansha Islands Garrison, was quoted by the discharge as saying that these feminine members might be despatched again to the mainland each a number of months for relaxation to make sure their well being.
Zhou Yaling, one of many girls, stated Nansha is extra stunning than what that they had imagined. “There are airports, harbors, streets, hospitals and sporting grounds. All of them make the islands like a stunning metropolis on the ocean,” she was quoted as saying within the launch.
Earlier than them, there have been feminine PLA members on the islands however they have been in brief missions and nonetheless took orders from models that despatched them there, the China Day by day reporter discovered.