Some 150 newly recruited soldiers attend a training session in freezing temperatures in Yichuan, northeast China's Heilongjiang Province. (File photo/VCG）

A soldier of special operations under the PLA 75th Group Army descends to the ground during a parachute training in southwest China's Yunnan Province. (Photo: China News Service/Lin Sijin)

Female soldiers conduct a series of rappels and sling loads from helicopters in southwest China's Tibet Autonomous Region. (Photo: China News Service/Wang Shudong)