The People’s Liberation Army’s Olympic Security will use air, land, and air forces involving four military regions

Tian Yixiang, Minister of Military Affairs of the Beijing Olympic Security Coordination Group, pointed out today that anti-terrorism is the top priority of Olympic security. In responding to emergencies and emergencies, the People's Liberation Army’s Olympic security forces have formulated adequate countermeasures and have the confidence and ability to complete the Olympic security mission.

Tian Yixiang said in an interview with the China News Service that the People’s Liberation Army’s Olympic security forces determined to use part of the army, navy, and air force in accordance with the principle of using the nearest force. The force involved four military areas and the sea, air force, and headquarters’s branch (sub)teams, including the Army. Aviation, engineering, chemical defense, and medical professional forces. The use of combat aircraft, helicopters, ships, ground-to-air missiles, radar, anti-chemical, engineering support and other weapons and equipment.

"From the perspective of security in the Beijing Olympics, there are three major security risks: terrorist attacks are the primary threat to the security of the Olympics. 'East Turkistan' terrorist forces, 'Tibetan independence' separatist forces, 'Falungong' cults, etc. may adopt various methods and even take Extreme violence has disrupted and undermined the smooth holding of the Olympic Games. In addition, domestic and foreign hostile forces have disrupted and caused public security incidents to be the main and potential threats to Olympic security, Tian Yixiang said.

In terms of specific countermeasures, he disclosed that in order to prevent and timely dispose of abnormal conditions in the air, especially air terrorist attacks, five areas far and near were set up in the airspace of the various divisions, and successive inspections, warnings, extrapolations, and forced landings were conducted. Until the attack. In addition, with reference to the practices of other hosting countries of the Olympic Games, it is planned to establish restricted-flight areas and no-fly zones in the Olympic Games and to implement a certain range of air-space management to ensure air safety. According to the level of risk assessment, the military assisted the public security in deploying advanced professional security inspection and testing equipment and equipment in key venues such as Olympic venues, and put the four lines of defense to “bringing closed halls, entering security inspections, inspections within pipelines, and spot monitoring” to detect toxicities in a timely manner. Harmful substances, implement prior disposal.

Tian Yixiang said that during the Olympic Games, professional forces such as chemical defense, engineering, medical and health, and army aviation will be deployed near the competition area to ensure quick response and timely and efficient disposal in case of events. The management and control of maritime safety will be based on the characteristics of different sea areas, and will be divided into restricted zones and no-ban zones. Before the sea race, the Navy will organize diving forces and sonar equipment to conduct safety inspections of underwater conditions. During the competition, the Navy will organize uninterrupted patrols in the surrounding sea areas to strengthen the search and observation of the sea area and prevent illegal ships, floating objects, frogmen, etc. from entering the competition area.