# border defence

Spring at the Edge: How China’s Border Garrisons Cultivate Greenhouses, Honors and Home Ties to Sustain Frontier Morale

As spring slowly returns to China’s high frontiers, PLA border units are planting greenhouses, hanging wooden star plaques on an honour tree and cultivating family and civic ties to sustain morale. These initiatives improve living conditions, reinforce unit identity and serve a broader domestic messaging effort about the normality and dedication of frontier service.