Troops reinforced with professional equipment in Heilongjiang flood-fighting frontline

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HARBIN, September 5 (ChinaMil) – Since mid-August, the Helongjiang River, Nenjiang River and Songhua River in northeast China's Heilongjiang province have all embraced devastating floods. The Heilongjiang Provincial Military Command (PMC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) has dispatched more than 10,000 soldiers, militiamen and reservists to the flood-fighting frontline. At the same time, the flood fighters were reinforced by 20,000-odd pieces of professional equipment from the provincial military command, which proved a great help in improving the efficiency of combating the flood, handling emergencies and conducting rescue, a leading official of the Heilongjiang PMC told PLA Daily on Tuesday.

"With the professional equipment, we feel more confident when fulfilling urgent, difficult, dangerous and important tasks," said Xiong Yingchun, a noncommissioned officer of a frontier defense unit under the Heilongjiang PMC.

According to sources, since early last year, the Heilongjiang PMC has successively purchased various kinds of professional flood-fighting equipment such as unmanned reconnaissance aircraft, life-saving projecting device, life jacket and individual-soldier safety rope, and distributed them to troop units undertaking flood-fighting and emergency-handling tasks.

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