The Zhurihe Training Base (), also called the Zhurihe Combined Tactics Training Base, is a

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(PLA) base in

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, 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 games.

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commemorated the 90th anniversary of the PLA with a

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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

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. 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 in

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—and a near-replica of the

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. Many of these structures were built between 2013 and 2015. In July 1997, the 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.

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