PLA soldiers serving along Qinghai-Tibet highway

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PLA soldiers serving along Qinghai-Tibet highway

(Source: People's Daily Online) 2014-10-22

The oxygen content in the air on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau is less than half of that of the inland; the annual average temperature there is about minus 6 Celsius degrees; and the annual average of strong wind days is over 120.(Chinanews/Liu Guanguan)

The year 2014 marks the 60th anniversary of the opening of the Sichuan-Tibet highway and Qinghai-Tibet highway.

　　Over 60 years ago, 110,000 road construction workers sweated and shed blood for this road 4,000 meters above sea level, and more than 3,000 workers sacrificed their lives. The Sichuan-Tibet highway and the Qinghai-Tibet highway were completed in December 1954 with an overall length of 4,360 kilometers. The 2,000 kilometers Qinghai-Tibet highway is the highest road on frozen soils.

　　Now, soldiers stationed along the Qinghai-Tibet highway take 80 percent of the transportation tasks of the PLA troops in Tibet.

　　The oxygen content in the air on the Qinghai-Tibet plateau is less than half of that of the inland; the annual average temperature there is about minus 6 Celsius degrees; and the annual average of strong wind days is over 120.

A soldier's wife sees her husband off at a departure ceremony on Sept. 23, 2014. (Chinanews/Liu Guanguan) Interesting. One can see the wife, but where is the soldier, unless he is the chap carrying the flag and showing Nation comes first before wife!)

China Military Online English Edition

This is an example typical of Communist propaganda which makes everything appear as a huge sacrifice and heroics.

All know that oxygen is low in High Altitude, but what is so great about serving there? If national duty demands, as it is for India, you have to face the rigours of climate. But no, in China it has to be made a mushy heroic deed.

One should go through the pictures in this link that makes everything appear mushy and heroic!

 

[Srinivas_K]

This is an example typical of Communist propaganda which makes everything appear as a huge sacrifice and heroics.

All know that oxygen is low in High Altitude, but what is so great about serving there? If national duty demands, as it is for India, you have to face the rigours of climate. But no, in China it has to be made a mushy heroic deed.

One should go through the pictures in this link that makes everything appear mushy and heroic!

Siachen is the toughest terrain compared to what PLA are doing :thumb: