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A Thousand Cold Kilometres for a New Year Reunion: Duty, Family and the Quiet Rituals of China’s Border Guards
A northern border garrison in China became the site of a 40-hour family reunion when a soldier who has served 19 years welcomed his wife and children for the Lunar New Year. The story symbolises the personal costs of long deployments, the logistical demands of frontier posts, and the way state media uses such vignettes to frame the PLA as both dutiful and domestically rooted.
Xi Meets Military Veterans at CMC New‑Year Gala, Reinforcing Party‑Army Bonds
President Xi Jinping attended a Central Military Commission New‑Year cultural performance for retired senior officers on Feb. 6, delivering greetings to veterans nationwide. The ceremony underlines Beijing’s use of ceremonial politics to reinforce party control over the military and to shore up loyalty among retired cadres.
PLA Navy Unit Escorts Honoured Sailors and Families on Cultural Pilgrimage to Cement Cohesion
A PLA naval brigade in the Eastern Theater took recently decorated servicemen and their families on a cultural tour of local museums and heritage sites to strengthen morale and family support. The event illustrates how the Chinese military uses recognition, traditional values and family engagement as tools of personnel management and political work.