Kazakh President attends military parade in Beijing as honorary guest

The Head of State, Kassym-Jomart Tokayev, arrived in Beijing to attend the military parade to commemorate the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II as an honorary guest.

As written before, the largest military parade in the history of the People's Republic of China will take place on September 3 in Beijing to mark the 80th anniversary of Victory in World War II. 

Wu Zeke, deputy director of the Office of the Leading Group for the Military Parade and a senior officer of the Joint Staff Department of the Central Military Commission, said that the parade will showcase the new organizational structure of China’s armed forces, and for the first time will display certain types of land-, sea- and air-based strategic weapons, as well as hypersonic and precision strike systems, unmanned and counter-unmanned aerial vehicles.

The parade will feature 45 marching soldier units and will last approximately 70 minutes.

Apart from the Ground Troops, Navy, Air Force, and Missile Force, the parade will also feature four additional branches of the armed forces: the Aerospace Force, the Cyberspace Force, the Information Support Force and the Joint Logistics Support Force.

Recall that Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev took part in the meeting of the Council of Heads of State of the SCO as well as the SCO Plus summit in Tianjin, China. 

On September 1, Kazakh President Kassym-Jomart Tokayev arrived in Beijing as part of his visit to China.