Grid link powers border defense

A stable power supply is a crucial strategic element for military border defense missions in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, Huang Xiaoming, the deputy commander of the People's Liberation Army's Xinjiang military region, said on Monday.

Huang made the remarks after power lines were connected to frontier defense stations on the China-Pakistan border.

The PLA border defense company in the Tashkurgan Tajik autonomous county's Khunjerab Pass on the Pamir Plateau installed high definition surveillance cameras on the mountain passes leading to Pakistan in September, but they sometimes failed to work because of an unstable power supply.