Xi orders PLA to intensify combat awareness (1/2)

General Secretary of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee Xi Jinping (C), who is also the chairman of the CPC Central Military Commission, examines onboard the Navy destroyer Haikou during his inspection at the Guangzhou military theater of operations of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), Dec. 8, 2012. Xi made an inspection at the PLA's Guangzhou military theater of operations, a term usually used to emphasize the coordination and joint operations by forces in air, land and sea, from Dec. 8 to 10. (Xinhua/Wang Jianmin)