# 78th Group Army
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How a PLA 'Red Company' Turns Revolutionary Lore into Modern Fighting Credibility
State media has highlighted the 78th Group Army’s “Red Third Company” for combining modern mechanized tactics with a long revolutionary lineage, claiming the unit destroyed more than ten opposing vehicles in a recent exercise while sustaining no casualties. The report serves both as a tactical vignette about mobility and small-unit initiative and as political messaging that binds combat proficiency to historical memory and civic virtue.
A Decade of Duty: How a PLA Brigade Keeps a Fallen Peacekeeper's Memory Alive
Soldiers from a PLA brigade have visited the parents of Shen Liangliang — killed in a 2016 Mali peacekeeping attack and named a People’s Hero in 2019 — every year for ten years, delivering signed flags, albums and domestic comforts. The ritual illustrates how the Chinese military institutionalises care for martyrs’ families to sustain morale, manage risk from overseas deployments, and project a narrative of sacrifice and responsibility.