Air show marks 70 years of China's air force

This is the seventh open house run by the Air Force since 2011 when the first was conducted. The venue is permanently set in Changchun, a city historically significant to the Air Force.

In March 1946, the first flight school of the Communist Party of China's armed forces was set up in Jilin province's Tonghua and was later moved to Changchun. The school is defined by the Air Force as its cradle.

Three and half years later, the PLA Air Force was established on Nov 11, 1949, in Beijing, about one month after the founding of the People's Republic of China.