China will hold three months of live-fire military drills from August 28 in the sea near Yancheng, East China's Jiangsu Province, reports said Monday.
The drills are scheduled to be conducted daily from 6:30 a.m. to 10 p.m. and will end on November 30, the China News Service reported, citing a notice from the Maritime Safety Administration. The notice also warned ships to stay clear of the region, which will be cordoned off by lookout posts with red flags on the shore and assault boats in the sea.
The region is located to the east of Sheyang River, an estuary to the Yellow Sea, where China borders the Korean Peninsula. Similar live-fire drills were conducted from July 28 to November 20 last year.
The drills were announced following a series of military exercises of the People's Liberation Army, and come after the ongoing China-Russia joint naval drills, codenamed Joint Sea-2015 (II), which is being held from August 20 to 28 in the Peter the Great Gulf off the Clerk Cape, and the Sea of Japan.
Four fighter jets - two J-10 and two JH-7 - were dispatched by the PLA Air Force, according to Air Force spokesman Shen Jinke. A KJ-200 early-warning plane also took part in the ongoing exercises.
The PLA began eight-day military training exercises on July 31 in the Bohai and Yellow seas, a day before China's Army Day, while another 10-day drill ended on July 31 to the east of Hainan Province in the South China Sea.
In June, PLA forces also held air-ground live-fire drills in Yunnan Province, close to the China-Myanmar border.
