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China installs Weather Station at the Arunachal-Tibet border for military operations

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China installs Weather Station at the Arunachal-Tibet border for military operations

Beijing: China has installed an unmanned automatic weather observation station near its border between Arunachal Pradesh and Tibet, to support its army in the event of a live fire conflict with India.

Beijing has plans to set up more such facilities in future in the plateau bordering India.

Media reports say that the station along the Indian border is situated at Yumai township under Lhunze county of Shannan Prefecture in Tibet for providing data to help with transportation and communication for defence purposes. It could also offer support during regional live-fire conflicts.

The station is aimed at providing strong meteorological support for China’s defence and further promote border development as well as military-civilian integration, according to a statement on the official website of the Tibet weather bureau.

Regional weather is an important factor that could influence the take-off and landing of aircraft and the launch of missiles during a battle. A small weather observation station could provide such information, military expert Song Zhongping told the media on Monday.

India and China, who fought a war in 1962, were locked in over a two-month military stand-off last year near their border with Sikkim, which straddles Tibet.

“The station can observe six factors – air temperature, air pressure, wind speed, wind direction, humidity and precipitation – with more accuracy than before,” said Tashi Norbu, a technician in charge of the station.

With nine households and 32 residents, Yumai is the smallest township of China in terms of population and is located in the southern foothills of the Himalayas and affected by the monsoon climate of the Indian Ocean.

The only road linking Yumai and the outside world has been under construction since 2017. More weather stations will be set up when the road is completed, said Dawa, the secretary of the Communist Party of China’s Yumai committee.

He said the station would help a lot in local pasture and road construction.

“Residents will enjoy better meteorological services to better safeguard every blade of grass and tree on the territory of the motherland,” Dawa said.

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