Soldiers take part in a military drill code-named "Vanguard-2010" in Jinan, Shandong Province August 3, 2010 in this photo released by China's official Xinhua News Agency. China began a five-day live-fire air defence exercise on Tuesday with fighter jets and thousands of servicemen against a backdrop of increased military and diplomatic tension with the United States. Picture taken August 3, 2010.

In this photo taken on Saturday, July 31, 2010, Chinese soldiers belonging to one of only two cavalry battalions in the People's Liberation Army go through exercises on the Xilin Gol grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. The 150 men battalion performs patrol along the China and Mongolia border.

Paramilitary policemen practice during a daily drill at the Forbidden City on Army Day of the Chinese People's Liberation Army in Beijing August 1, 2010. PLA Daily, the voice of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA), published on Sunday an editorial to hail the 83rd anniversary of the founding of the army, urging greater efforts in enhancing modernization and national defense, Xinhua news Agency reported.

Chinese paramilitary police clean up the mud left by floodwaters in Yongji county, northeast China's Jilin province on August 1, 2010. Parts of southern, central and northern China have been battered by downpours that have caused the worst flooding in a decade, leaving about 1,000 dead and hundreds more missing since the beginning of the year.

A police walks pass barrels of illegal cooking oil, better known as 'drainage oil' seized during a crackdown in Beijing on August 2, 2010, after reports said up to one-tenth of Chinese supplies were illegally made and contained cancer-causing agents. The State Food and Drug Administration ordered stepped-up inspections of all food service providers and vowed to punish manufacturers producing 'drainage oil', cooking oil refined from discarded kitchen waste.