High alert
By Cui Jia | China Daily | Updated: 2014-09-25 08:15
Chinese troops keep close tabs on terrorist threats at the Wakhan Corridor mountain border area, Cui Jia reports in Kashgar
Tang Zheng stood on top of the brick fort, at 4,300 meters above sea level on the Pamir Plateau.
The political instructor of a People's Liberation Army company, stationed at the remote Wakhan Corridor in the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, pointed to a snow-capped mountain in the distance.
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