The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) forces started an air-ground live-fire drill in southwest China's Yunnan Province, close to the border with Myanmar, on Tuesday.
The exercise, which is part of the training for army units of the Southern Theater Command of the PLA, aims to test the military's capabilities, including mobilization, maneuvers and joint strike.
Planes, artillery, air defense, infantry, missile and radar units are participating in the drill. The exercise sites and attack targets were randomly selected.
Armed clashes broke out on March 6 before dawn in Laukkai, a town in the Kokang region of Myanmar's northern Shan state, with Kokang's Myanmar National Democratic Alliance Army launching an offensive on Laukkai, resulting in dozens of casualties, including civilians. More than 20,000 Burmese have fled to China since armed clashes broke out.

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