China's fast-forward toward a modern air force plans to the occasion of its establishment 60 years to show its new military strength, indicating that it carried out extensive technical innovations to improve its own military capabilities, but still lags far behind its main rival the United States. ???? People's Liberation Army Air Force in order to mark the occasion, there will be flying and parachuting performance, which will use some advanced fighters, these fighters have replaced hundreds of old aircraft "MiG" fighters. ???? University of California, San Diego expert on the Chinese military Tai-ming (sound) said that although the number of China's advanced fighter is only about 20% of the West, but this proportion more than five years ago, doubled. ???? Tai-ming, said that in another 20 years, China will become the Air Force's premier air force in the region. He said, "hardware", the Chinese Air Force "is on the march, but still long way to go." ???? Along with the national defense-oriented away from the Chinese army to strengthen its own border with the ability to launch military and related significant increase in defense spending, while the Air Force and Navy is one of the main beneficiaries. ???? China added to the air refueling, AWACS and other support aircraft, to expand the Air Force advanced Russian-made Sukhoi fighters and F -10 fighter combat domestic coverage and effectiveness. ???? Chinese air force has more than 60 million people, about 2,000 aircraft, the largest in Asia. However, it is still far smaller than the U.S. Air Force, the Air Force has more than 5500 aircraft, nearly 327.5 thousand active duty. ???? China to improve its air force, mainly to enhance its defense of the country from the border, to prevent Taiwan's formal independence seen in mission-critical. ???? In addition, the Chinese Air Force does not have enough aircraft, whether in combat or humanitarian relief operations, are difficult to carry out large-scale equipment and supplies by air. In a recent military exercise conducted by a nationwide, the part in the exercise of military or civilian aircraft to use the transport. Lack of capacity hampers humanitarian relief operations in China would like to play a greater role in the aspirations of the region. ???? Despite last year's earthquake in Sichuan, the Chinese Air Force has mobilized a large number of military power, but bad weather conditions forced them to cancel a number of attempts by air transport of personnel and equipment operations. Start talking about a hype airborne troops, eventually they spent almost two days time, the results of airborne only 15 soldiers. ???? Flight safety is also a problem. However, as the Chinese side for the bad things are always a high degree of confidentiality, the outside world is difficult to assess the Chinese air force's flight records.