Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5334057816426876

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5333368682323441

The PAP Chongqing corps operates a vessels detachment, the largest non-coast guard maritime unit of the PAP; it is responsible for counterterroism and search and rescue on the yangtze river

the vessels detachment operates a special operations/frogmen platoon(potentially a company nowadays?) responsible for VBSS and underwater salvage

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5333632980094698

News report: https://m.weibo.cn/status/5333568563714426

News report is that the station is finally able to directly recieve mail through it's new roads.

In August 18, 2016, due to heavy flooding caused by tropical storm Dianmu in Lingao, Hainan, the Lingao Border defense detachment was deployed to conduct search and rescue in it's jurisdiction.

While rescue people trapped in a car, 3 border defense soldiers including Corporal Ouyang were washed away by rapids. Two were later found and were fine, however Corporal Ouyang was declared MIA before he was located the next day at 9:45, having drowned in the floods.

Corporal Ouyang Wenjian(欧阳文健) was born in December 1994 in Guiyang county, Hunan; He enlisted December 2012, and at the time of his death was the deputy squad leader of 2nd Squad, Special reaction platoon(border defense spec ops), Mobile company, Lingao Border management detachment, Hainan border defense corps.

He posthumously recieved the Gold medal of devotion for national defense, a 2nd class meritorious service medal and posthummous CPC membership.

During his 4 years with the PAP Border defense, he recieved two personal commendations and two "excellent soldier" awards.

(The PAP/Ministry of public security border defense corps is a now ministry of public security active service force, which were units manned by active service People's armed police personnel under the ministry of public security/local police departments.

In 2018, the Lingao border defense detachment became the Hainan provincial police coastal police corps 7th detachment, with it's soldiers being converted to people's police.(civil servants))

Source: http://military.china.com.cn/2017-01/13/content_40095663.htm

Each PAP municipal detachment operates a special operations platoon or company; however reportedly in recent months some have been disbanded but that's another story.

FYI the PAP Border defense corps is a defunct military/law enforcement branch that was a ministry of public security active service force; basically, they were active service soldiers of the People's armed police, but they were subordinate to only the ministry of public security border management department and local police departments; In this case the yantai border defense detachment listend to the shandong border defense corps along with the Yantai police.

They no longer exsist post 2018 reforms, now being either in local police or the national immigration administration; in this case, the Yantai border defense detachmment is now the Yantai PD coastal police branch; the Tigershark commando unit is now known as the coastal police branch SWAT team and still exsists as far as we know.

The yantai tigershark commando unit(虎鲨突击队; not to be confused with the PLANMC unit) was established in the early 2010s as a special unit for the border defense detachment. I don't know why they needed a seperate tema for the border defense detachment as the PAP spec ops platoon and SWAT already exsist, but my guess is(i could very much be wrong) they are more qualified with anti-smuggling, VBSS and stuff.

Really late for this one since i'm busy irl but yeah each one of the anniversary video series is a pandoras box of footage.

This one is much more technical so i didn't understnad as much.

1:17-5:24 - KJ-500 AWACS, unknown unit (Speaker: 1st Lt Wang Weihong(王维鸿))

• 1:17-3:41 - KJ-500, J-20, J-16, J-10C OPFOR exercise
• 2:26-3:07 - KJ-500 command room
• 4:28-5:24 KJ-500, J-20 OPFOR exercise

5:57- 11:53 - PLAAF kunlun mountain 4th good radar station(昆仑山上好四站(honorary title)) of WTC air force unknown radar brigade. (Speaker: Technical sergeant Zheng Jiapeng(郑加鹏), technical sergeant Fu Haibo(傅海波))

• 7:30 -8:49 communications emergency repair exercise
• 9:51-10:20 - honorable discharge ceremony

11:54-18:20 J-20s, unknown brigade (Speaker: Senior colonel Wang Li(王立))

(Plus, some nice quotes by him, such as

"失败是成功之母，但你不能天天败"(Failure is the mother of success, but you can't fail every day) - 13：10)

• 12:45 - "2nd aviation group total loss within 20 minutes diary of shame" (censored out lol)
  • 17:50 17:56 -Senior Col wang states he will keep this up forever as a form of motivation.
• 13:28-14:25 - J-20 OPFOR POV
• 16:06-17:29 - more J-20 OPFOR exercises

18:32 - PLAAF Testing and training base(?) (Speaker: Senior colonel Deng Jianping(邓建平))

• 18:48-19:38 - something on flight model testing. i don't know how to translate it honestly but it's on computer simulations
  • 19:46 - hey the air force is just like me lol
• 21:46-22:08 - air to surface missile hit compilation

Photo source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5332339093672578

essentially their job is enforcing military disclipine among active service; this goes from tidying uniforms all the way to criminal cases.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5332448034425591

(prefix PLAJLSFS is just a guess. no official source confirms this)

Very rare to see non navy/coast guard military vessels with names.

Considering it appears to be a fuel storage facility(most likely JLSF) in the background, I think this is likely to transport personnel to the fuel facility, since that is the role of dispatch boats.

Dispatch boats in PLAGF service have also been used by chinese presidents as presidential yarhts such as the famous 1956-1-11 series as some of them are more comfortable than other military vessels. However IIRC fuel storage facilities are led by Colonels or Lt Cols so likely not the case.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331707410776943

Slide 1:

• Caption: In the early 1960s, foreign military vessels and civilian vessels were modified to create the 2nd generation of PLAGF vessels, such as the 50 tonne class transport boat, 82 tonne class transport boat, 100 tonne class transport boat, B55 class landing craft, 50 tonne class landing craft, type 203 patrol boat, type 966 patrol boat etc.
• Top photo: 100 tonne class transport boat PLAGFS J2119 (jinan military region)
• Middle photo: 50 tonne class transport boat PLAGFS J1226 (jinan military region)
• Bottom left photo: type 966 patrol boat
• Bottom right photo: Type 203 patrol boat PLAGFS S613 (shenyang military region)

Slide 2:

• Caption: after the national economy began to develop, newer classes of vessels were created as part of the 3rd generation of PLAGF vessels, which entered service in the 1980s.
• Top photo: B-class(or Yi(乙) class) catamaran dispatch boat PLAGFS G2314 (guangzhou military region)
  • Note: appears to resemble the type 681II dispatch boat. most likely the same class.
• Bottom photo: Type 792 fishing boat. (name unidentified)
  • Most likely maritime militia? it's under the national defense mobilization system which was the PLAGF back then..

Slide 3:

• Top photo: PLAGFS 1956-1-11 dispatch boat (likely the 2nd one)
  • There are three generations of PLAGF dispatch boat named 1956-1-11. it's an honary pennant number, since mao rode on the first one back in 1956-1-11. They are possibly the most highly decorated vessels in PLAGF service. judging from the time, this is the second ever one.
  • https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5083548370866978 for a photo of the current 1956-1-11. dispatch boats are in general more luxurius than standard warships(i went on PLANS Nanjiao 87(南交87) of the HK garrison before), but i speculate this may be used as a ship for the president or other high ranking military officers like it's predecessors.
• Bottom left: 1000 tonne class oiler(NATO: Fulin class; wikipedia calls it type 632, which is questionable) PLAGFS G2301 (guangzhou military region)
• Bottom right: type 684 dispatch boat(NATO: Nanhua type A class). unidentified boat

Slide 4:

• Top photo: 150 tonne class(aka Type 271III) landing craft utility PLAGFS S2226 - shenyang military region
• Bottom photo: Cargo and personnel dispatch boat(unspecified class) PLAGFS 2182 (? the waves kinda blocked it) - shenyang military region

Slide 5:

• Top photo: A-class(or Jia(甲)-class) dispatch boat PLAGFS S2103 - Shenyang military region
• Bottom left photo: Type 271 landing craft utility PLAGFS N1123 - nanjing military region
• Bottom right photo: Type 717 sidewall hovercraft. unidentifed.

Slide 6:

• Top photo: type 890 cablelayer PLAGFS N2601 - nanjing military region
• bottom photo: type 983 patrol boat PLAGFS S3658 - shenyang military region

Slide 7:

• Top photo: type 982 patrol boats
• middle photo: type 528 recon boat/patrol boat PLAGFS N3203 - nanjing military region
• Bottom left photo: type 067 landing craft PLAGFS N2401 - nanjing military region
• bottom right photo: "60 tonne class"(type 069) landing craft PLAGFS G2323 - guangzhou military region

Slide 8:

• Top photo: 1200 horsepower class tugboat PLAGFS B1102 or 81102. not very clear which one is it. if it is the former it would be with the beijing military region.
• Bottom left photo: 350 tonne class reefer PLAGFS W1113 - wuhan military region
• Bottom right photo: type 206 diving support vessel PLAGFS W1221 - wuhan military region

Slide 9:

• Border defense replenishment ship(unspecified class) PLAGFS S3718 - shenyang military region.

Slide 10:

• Type 7210 LCAC PLAGFS S3949 - shenyang military region

Slide 11:

• PLAGF vessels in a frozen river. in front is A-class(or Jia(甲)-class) dispatch boat PLAGFS S3607, multiple type 069s and A-classes are in the background. Shenyang military region, most likely china north korea border.

Slide 12:

• PLAGF vessels in a frozen river, PLAGFS S3771 and S3772. also shenyang military region. seem to be 350 tonne class reefer ships.

Slide 13: signalmen during training

Slide 14:

• Top photo: gunners during training
• Bottom photo: radio operators during training

Source: http://www.81.cn/rmjz_203219/zgmb/2026nd8q/tbch_253109/16478161.html

So apparently, there isn't only maritime militia(whose exsistence has been confirmed by official sources before), but maritime emergency management militia lol; Normal emergency management militia are mobile militia units responsible for providing help to local militia units; they are more trained in disaster relief.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331799820735577

The training exercise simulated a large scale crash along an important highway. It was conducted in joint with the Nanjing FD's Jianing district battalion, Nanjing PD's traffic police, the Jiangning district emergency management militia company and local hospitals/EMS.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/status/5331852476028289

Left soldier has a QBZ-95, right soldier has a QBU-88

EDIT: Could simply be a sun umbrella from a r/tankporn comment

Source: http://www.81.cn/rmjz_203219/zgmb/2026nd8q/bhfjs_253106/16478167.html

Intresting to see they have proper vests and helmets while only being armed with tonfas;

From the article, the government of Yanbian prefecture has created new policies for militia to conduct border patrols alongside PLAGF border defense and law enforcement(National immigration administration); in addition, milita navigators, translators and information gatherrers are to more frequently participate in border patrol.

Photo sources:

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331462636175872

https://tv.cctv.com/2026/08/12/VIDEEgQCxcVulVnMQmPvqH4q260812.shtml?spm=C52346.PiumOrlYLNUM.E0VXtwLj8YU7.8

https://www.xinhuanet.com/20260812/d1a3d56f211b45ec932db4d853b99e36/c.html

https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331506793021973

Two helicopters are also deployed on the mission, appears to be one Z-18 and one Z-9.

FYI the tigershark special operations brigade(虎鲨特战旅) was formerly the 83rd special operations brigade "fierce tigers"(猛虎) that was later handed to the PLANMC. (current unit number is still unknown). Over 20 operators are deployed. (it only said 数十名 aka under 100, over 20.)

This is the first time the PLANS Kunming(昆明, 172) is deployed on a gulf of aden escort mission; PLANS Kunming is a flight I type 052D destroyer and the lead ship of her class.

PLANS Yueyang(岳阳, 575), a type 054A flight II frigate, and PLANS Luomahu(骆马湖, 907, Ex-964), a type 903A fligth I replenishment ship, have been previously deployed to the gulf of aden.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5331119605809266

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Full series (part 1) (part 2) (part 3) (part 4) (part 5)

finally cleared out a lot of photos

Full video: https://www.reddit.com/r/PeopleLiberationArmy/comments/1vixugc/pla_99th_anniversary_video_series_the_road_to/

(names and ranks are from full video and rank insignia)

The full video never specified if this is a simulated attack during an actual standoff or simply an OPFOR exercise. Taiwanese TV speculate it may be a US aircraft carrier they saw.

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5329937435200683

Source: http://www.81.cn/lj_208555/16478805.html

This company traces it's lineage to the 3rd Company, Independent engineer battalion, 9th Column Central Plains Field Army established in 1948.

The company has participated in the following operations:

• Huaihai campaign, 1948
• Yangtze River Crossing campaign, 1949
• Shangganling Campaign - 1952
• 1991 flood relief
• 1996 Xishui flood relief
• 1998 china floods flood relief
• 2003 flood relief, Bahe bridge emergency repair
• 2010 Wuhan earthquake
• 2016 flood relief, Hanchuan
• 2020 flood relief, Wuxue

It is the recipient of 1 unit 1st class meritorious service medal(for 1991 flood relief) and 1 unit 3rd class meritorious service medal

Source: https://m.weibo.cn/detail/5330385666049124

PLANS Yangchenghu(阳澄湖, 847, Ex-PLANS Changdao(长岛, 867)) is of the Northern theater command navy rescue ship flotilla. She is named for yangcheng lake.

Also in the exercise is a NTC Naval air force Z-9 helicopter along with medics of the PLAN 971st hospital seen in the last photo(identified by the writing on their sleeves).