As China seeks to establish dual-use habitats along the disputed border, remarkable facts about how the People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is assisting residents of rural villages in building and maintaining infrastructure near the Line of Actual Control (LAC) with India have emerged.
The PLA has even dispatched army cooks to train local Tibetans on how to make popular “Chinese foods” in a community near the Indian border as part of its efforts to integrate civilian and military resources.
With the support of officers from the Tibet Military Region, part of the Western Theatre Command, which supervises the whole length of the Sino-India disputed boundary, residents have opened at least “five homestays.” The rooms feature televisions, oxygen generators, and wifi.
According to the report, the PLA has sent military cooks to hotel owners to educate them on how to prepare Chinese cuisine. Until recently, hotel managers claimed they had no idea how to prepare Chinese meals for tourists from outside the nation. The report went on to say that they do now. Soldiers on patrol in the area have been directed to call on the elderly twice a week, and military physicians are assigned to the village twice a week.
Yumai, China’s last significant border village, is only a few kilometres from the Upper Subansiri district in Arunachal Pradesh, according to a spot report in an official military blog published this week.
