But it has had next to no combat experience since a brief and undistinguished foray into Vietnam in 1979 and a huge deployment to crush pro-democracy unrest ten years later.

• 一个已经确认公开的趣闻是，为了迎接建军节这一有纪念意义的时刻，解放军引进了新式军服：更加紧身，而且更加美国化，因而遭到了一些中国知名网站用户的猛烈抨击。