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The People's Liberation Army Hong Kong Garrison for the first time opened its live-fire military exercise to the public in a military exercise field at Tsing Shan on June 4, 2015. (Roy Liu / China Daily) |
HONG KONG - The People's Liberation Army (PLA) Hong Kong Garrison staged a live-fire drill in Hong Kong suburb on Saturday, the first of its kind since 1997 that local residents are invited to observe.
At the Tsing Shan shooting range in the New Territories, soldiers with armored vehicles, anti-tank rockets and gunships from army, navy and air force of the garrison carried out a simulation of downtown Hong Kong defending.
More than 500 people observed the exercise.