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PLA's disaster relief works: review and reform
In: East Asian policy: an international quarterly, Band 2, Heft 3, S. 49-57
ISSN: 1793-9305
Since the Sichuan earthquake in mid-2008, the People's Liberation Army (PLA), due toits hard work on disaster rescues, has come under international spotlight once again. This earthquake has been considered the most destructive in China since 1949. Within days of the earthquake, more than 130,000 soldiers of the PLA and armed police were rushed to the earthquake frontier. (East Asian Pol/GIGA)