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Flags of new PLA Forces

The V-Day military parade to be held on Sept. 3 will be the first of its kind held after the cause of advancing Chinese modernization on all fronts embarked on a "new journey." 

The V-Day parade will showcase the military's latest achievements in enhancing political loyalty and improving political work through rectification, said Wu Zeke, deputy director of the Leading Group Office of Military Parade and a senior officer of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission.

Wu Zeke said at the press conference on preparations for the parade that the event will also be a demonstration of the people's armed forces as it strives to achieve the military's centenary goal.

At a press conference on the parade preparations, Wu emphasized that the armed forces will remain unwaveringly loyal to the Party's leadership core, and firmly uphold, safeguard and defend this core.

He added that the armed forces will remain a heroic military that the Party and the people can always rely on.

Major General Xu Guizhong, a senior officer from the Central Theater Command of the People's Liberation Army also addressed the press conference on V-Day military parade preparations.

Troops participating in the upcoming V-Day parade will line up in formations along the Chang'an Avenue in Beijing, and they will be reviewed by President Xi Jinping, also general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission.

Major Details of the Parade

Other details of the Parade as indicated by the senior officers included deployment of strategic systems and hypersonic weapons, organization of the parade will be based on the functional groups rather than the services while the newly raised forces in the structure will also be displayed.

Part of China's land-, sea-, and air-based strategic heavyweights and hypersonic precision-strike weapons will be displayed for the first time at the upcoming V-Day military parade, according to a press conference on August 20.

New-type fourth-generation armaments unmanned and counter-unmanned equipment, and directed-energy weapons will also be displayed, said an official at the press conference.

The joint armament formations for the upcoming military parade will be organized in a manner reflecting their functions in real combat.

They will include groups for land combat, maritime combat, air defense and anti-missile operations, information warfare, unmanned combat, logistics and equipment support, and strategic strike, according to a press conference on V-Day military parade preparations.

A new layout of the structure of Chinese armed forces will be displayed for the first time at the upcoming V-Day military parade, according to a press conference on August 20.

Led by the Party, national and military flags, troop formations will march during the parade, holding the flags of various military forces as well as the flag of the People's Armed Police Force, an official said at the press conference.

The Chinese People's Liberation Army has four branches, namely the aerospace force, cyberspace force, information support force and joint logistics support force, as well as the army, navy, air force and rocket force said the press release.

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In terms of capabilty demonstration on the occasion of the V Day, the parade will demonstrate progress made by the PLA in terms of organisation for combat and strategic systems with loyalty to the Party emphasised.

However, the signal to members of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) the Summit 2025 to be held in Tianjin from Aug. 31 to Sept. 1 may be of PLA's modern prowess.

Chinese President Xi Jinping is set to chair the 25th Meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO and the "SCO Plus" Meeting and deliver keynote speeches. While members would have dispersed by then and the Summit is not being held in Beijing, spaced just a day apart symbolism may not be lost sight of.