May 18, 2024
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Important news
Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the CPC Central Committee, President of the People's Republic of China and Chairman of the Central Military Commission, recently made important instructions on tourism work, pointing out that since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, the development of tourism in mainland China has entered the fast lane, forming the world's largest domestic tourism market, becoming the largest source country and main destination of international tourism.
On May 17, President Xi Jinping sent a congratulatory letter to the 8th China-Russia Expo.
On the evening of May 16, President Xi Jinping held a small-scale meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Zhongnanhai.
On 15 May, Liu Zhenli, member of the Central Military Commission and chief of staff of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, held a video call with British Chief of the Defense Staff Radakin during which the two sides exchanged views on the relations between the two countries and the two militaries, the international and regional situation, and exchanged views on strengthening exchanges and cooperation between the two militaries.
On the evening of May 16, Beijing time, leaders of the International Military Cooperation Office of the Central Military Commission had a video call with the US Assistant Secretary of Defense.
On the afternoon of 17 May, Senior Colonel Zhang Xiaogang, deputy director of the Information Bureau of the Ministry of National Defense and spokesman of the Ministry of National Defense, issued a news release on recent military-related issues.
Strong military news
The first all-element and full-process live-fire joint training of the China-Mongolia "Steppe Partner-2024" army was held at a training ground in Mongolia's East Gobi Province on the morning of May 17 local time.
On the morning of 17 May, the Navy's 45th escort squadron returned to a military port in Qingdao after successfully completing the escort, joint exercise, and follow-up missions after a voyage of 249 days and nights and more than 50,000 nautical miles. At about 9 o'clock in the morning, the navy of the Northern Theater held a solemn ceremony at the pier to welcome the triumphant departure of the formation.
Recently, the armed reconnaissance comprehensive competition of the 81st Group Army of the Central Theater Army kicked off.
Recently, a certain unit of the naval aviation unit carried out a multi-course antisubmarine flight training in a certain sea area to test the performance of equipment and the training methods of tactics and temper the ability to win battles.
Recently, the "Jianghuai Eagle" unit of the 71 st Group Army organized armed helicopters to carry out multi-type, multi-bomb and day-and-night live-fire training to test the troops' firepower strike capability.
Recently, the hospital ship Youai, an al-Qaida organization of the Navy in the Southern Theater of Operations, has successively traveled to a number of Xisha islands and reefs to carry out health examinations, diagnosis and treatment of illnesses, psychological counseling, and popularization of medical and health knowledge for the officers and men of the troops stationed on the islands, so as to bring health and warmth to the sentinels of Tianya.
International news
The 33rd session of the Council of Heads of State of the League of Arab States on 16 May called for "irreversible steps" towards the implementation of the two-State solution, urging Israel to immediately cease its aggression against the Gaza Strip, to completely withdraw its troops from the Gaza Strip, to lift the siege on the Gaza Strip and to open all border crossings to ensure the entry of humanitarian assistance into the Gaza Strip.
On May 16, the South African government filed a complaint with the United Nations International Court of Justice (ICJ) that Israel's "genocide" in the Gaza Strip "has reached an outrageous new phase" and urged the Court to urgently issue "interim measures" to halt Israel's military operations in the Gaza Strip.
Recently, universities in many parts of the United States have held protests in support of Palestine and against the U.S. government's support for Israel. On May 15 and 16, local police dispersed protesters and dismantled protest camps at universities in California and Illinois.
Weather forecast
2024/5/18
From 20:00 on May 17 to 20:00 on the 18th, there were moderate to heavy rains in eastern Qinghai, southeastern Tibet, southern Sichuan Basin, southern Chongqing, northeast Yunnan, most of Guizhou, most of Guangxi, western Guangdong, Hainan Island and other places. Among them, there are heavy rains in parts of southwest Guizhou and central and northern Guangxi, and there are heavy rains (100~120 mm) locally.
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