Army Chief visits Nanjing Army Command and Staff College

Army Commander Lieutenant General Jagath Jayasuriya in China on a formal visit, toured the Nanjing Army Command and Staff College, one of the first colleges of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) of China that opened to the outside world with a history spanning over 50 years.

The Army Commander's Sunday visit made history, since it was the first a Commander from Sri Lanka was visiting the Army Command and Staff College in the heart of Nanjing city.

The Commander on arrival at the college was received by the school's Political Commissioner Major General Li Ai Ting. The delegation was later briefed by college authorities before being shown around the premises.

The college's Foreign Students Training Department receives some 100-odd students from foreign Armed Forces of more than five continents, including Sri Lankans. Three Sri Lanka Army officers undergoing training in this College greeted the Army Chief and shared their views with him. Meanwhile, Lieutenant General Jayasuriya and his entourage on the fourth day of their stay in China, visited two mega industrial complexes, Norinco and CETC where hi-tech defence products, military hardware, heavy vehicles, machinery, optical-electronic items, chemicals, explosives, civil and military firearms are manufactured for export and researches are carried out.

The Sri Lankan military delegation during their one-hour stay in the Norinco (North Industries Corporation) complex learnt how the processes, connected to production, assembling, packing, labelling, etc of hardware are streamlined, using the most modern sophisticated technological innovations and techniques that are very much in vogue and widely used world-wide through different auxiliaries.

Later, the Sri Lankan delegation received a comprehensive picture of the working of the China's Electronics Technology Group Corporation (CETC), which has spread its wings with expertise to varying international engineering turnkey projects, exhibitions, marketing and advertisements as one of the world's most renowned leaders of electronic and information products’ research, development, production and system integration.