Xi urges strategic missile troops to enhance capabilities

President Xi Jinping has urged the country's strategic missile troops to strengthen their deterrence and combat capabilities and resolutely fulfill the tasks entrusted to them by the Party and the people.

Xi, who also is general secretary of the Communist Party of China Central Committee and chairman of the Central Military Commission, made the remarks on Thursday while inspecting a brigade of the People's Liberation Army Rocket Force.

Xi visited the brigade of strategic missile troops, which has a history of over 50 years, on Thursday morning. Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC in 2012, the brigade has strengthened its training in real combat conditions and accomplished a series of major tasks.