The Zhurihe Training Base (), also called the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base,
is a
People's Liberation Army (PLA) base in
Inner Mongolia
Inner Mongolia, officially the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, is an autonomous region of the People's Republic of China. Its border includes most of the length of China's border with the country of Mongolia. Inner Mongolia also accounts for a ...
,
China, founded in 1957.
The largest military base in China, Zhurihe covers , has its own hospital, and for over 60 years
has hosted multiple mock training areas for conducting urban
war game
A wargame is a strategy game in which two or more players command opposing armed forces in a realistic simulation of an armed conflict. Wargaming may be played for recreation, to train military officers in the art of strategic thinking, or to s ...
s.
and
Chairman Xi Jinping
Xi Jinping ( ; ; ; born 15 June 1953) is a Chinese politician who has served as the general secretary of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and chairman of the Central Military Commission (CMC), and thus as the paramount leader of China, ...
commemorated the 90th anniversary of the PLA with a
military parade
A military parade is a formation of soldiers whose movement is restricted by close-order manoeuvering known as drilling or marching. The military parade is now almost entirely ceremonial, though soldiers from time immemorial up until the la ...
at Zhurihe.
The PLA has called Zhurihe their "most modernized training base" and say it is the largest in Asia.
Comparisons have been made between Zhurihe and Fort Irwin in California, United States.
Zhurihe is home to the 81st Army Group.
The base is overseen by the PLA's Beijing Military Area Command.
The base features a variety of mock facilities including highways, an airstrip,
a town center with buildings—one of which closely resembles the Presidential Office Building (Republic of China), Presidential Office Building in Taipei, Taiwan—and a near-replica of the Eiffel Tower.
Many of these structures were built between 2013 and 2015.
In July 1997, the Central Military Commission (China), Central Military Commission designated Zhurihe to be modernized and turned into a training base for China.
The PLA opened the base to foreign armed forces for the first time on August 25, 2003.
References
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Inner Mongolia