Dalian women honored for military service

A female militia group based in Haiyangdao town in Dalian, Liaoning province, was designated as a March 8 Red Flag Group recently by the All-China Women's Federation.

Over the past 63 years, the March 8 Female Artillery Squad — 14 generations of 92 members — has been guarding the coastal frontiers in the northern Yellow Sea, together with soldiers stationed on the Haiyang Island, which covers a land area of 19.3 square kilometers in Changhai county.