Beijing: China’s President XI Jinping has praised the border guard battalion in Tibet, who shared a limit with Indian state Arunachal Pradesh, who said his troops had carried out “big jobs” in the last five years, official media here reported.
Xi visited Nyingchi, the Tibetan border city close to Arunachal Pradesh in July, became the first Chinese president to visit the distance border area in Tibet.
“President XI wrote back to the Battalion model of the highland border guard, said they had done work well in the past five years and encouraged them to make new contributions to the party and the people,” Global Global Report The State on Monday.
The model battalion is under the Xizang military command (Chinese name for Tibet) from the People’s Liberation Army (PLA), he said.
In 2016, XI awarded a special award at the PLA Military Battalion posted in Tibet because of “outstanding performance on the border protection”.
Xi, who clenched the Head of the Central Military Commission (CMC) – The Overall PLA command authority signed a command to provide an honorary title for the Battalion in 2016.
“The 77656 troops are now titled ‘Model Plateau Battalion’ for its extraordinary performance.
In designing borders, ensuring Stability and helping disaster relief, “said the Government Xinhua news agency in a report in August 2016.
The Plateau Battalion model was reportedly one of the six battalions that functions under the command of the Tibetan military region.
China claims Arunachal Pradesh as part of South Tibet, which is strongly rejected by India.
Indian-China border disputes include actual control lines of 3,488 km.