In late December 2007, the General Armaments Department (GAD) of the PLA sent 30-odd outstanding young and middle-aged experts to the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region for academic investigation.

Among the experts participating in this academic investigation from over 20 units of the PLA General Armaments Department, some are hi-tech personnel engaged themselves in the long-term aerodynamic technological researches and equipment experimentation, others are experts directly participating in the argumentation and development of weaponry and equipment. They paid homage to the Monument of the Baise Uprising and inspected the new countryside development in Lingyun County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and some 10 thousand mu of tea farms in a pyramidal mountainous areas, etc., through which the experts have not only learned about the revolutionary predecessors' heroic deeds in their struggle for the birth of New China during the revolutionary war years, but also experienced the tremendous changes having taken place in China since the reform and opening-up policy was initiated in late 1970s.

(PLA Daily January 3, 2008)