A brigade of the 77th Group Army stationed in the northwest Gobi recently organized officers and soldiers to carry out long-range live firing of vehicle-mounted anti-aircraft machine guns to comprehensively test the firing skills of armored soldiers and strengthen their field combat capabilities, according to a report by the CCTV Military.
According to public information, the 77th Group Army of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is one of the units belonging to the PLA Army, formed in April 2017, with the army commander being Lin Huomao and political commissar being Li Zehua. The military headquarters is based in Chongzhou City, Chengdu, Sichuan Province.
This time, the brigade of the 77th Army Group was mobilized from Chongzhou in southwest China a long distance to Xinjiang Gobi in the northwest for training, but the two places belong to the same Western Theater.
Previously there have been other theaters such as the central and southern theaters to Xinjiang or Tibet for training, implying that armies from all Chinese theaters can go to the Indian front to fight.