Six Russian naval vessels arrived in Shanghai Sunday ahead of joint drills held by the Chinese and Russian navies.
According to Tian Zhong, a deputy commander of the Chinese navy, for the first time naval vessels from the two countries will be shuffled and re-organized in the drill. Submarines and surface ships will be organized to confront each other and the surface ship fleet will conduct beyond-visual-range attack and defense drills.
With more united, integrated and real combat conditions, the drill will improve the two navies' capacity in dealing with maritime security threat, Tian added.
"Joint Sea 2014" will be held in the northern region of the East China Sea between May 20 and 26.
Russian president Vladimir Putin is also in Shanghai this week, attending the Summit of the Conference on Interaction and Confidence Building Measures in Asia, for which the city has been turned into an armed camp attended by over 300,000 "security volunteers".
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