The last train carrying Chinese servicemen, armaments and military equipment for the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO)'s anti-terror exercises arrived at Misyash railway station in Chelyabinsk region on Friday.
All of the Chinese servicemen, who began to arrive at the station by train on Wednesday, will go to the Chebarkul training site 75 km away, where the first joint exercises of the Chinese and Russian air squadrons will take place on Monday.
On July 20, setting out from China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, over 300 Chinese servicemen traveled over 10,000 km by train in 15 days, and the railway department transported more than 500 tons of armaments and military equipment.
The exercises, dubbed "Peace Mission 2007", will be carried out in Chelyabinsk, Russia and in Urumqi, capital of Xinjiang.
The six member states of the SCO -- China, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Russia, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan -- will stage the joint anti-terror drill from Aug. 9 to Aug. 17.
Source: Xinhua
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