From Reuters:
Make-way cutesy animals and sugary pop songs — Chinese mobile phone users can now download film clips of the Korean War and stirring military anthems to celebrate the founding of the People’s Liberation Army. Subscribers to China Unicom, the smaller of the country’s two mobile telecom operators, are being offered the service for about $1 a month, the official Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday.
“I believe it will be popular since we have so many military fans in China,” it quoted company official Yu Peng as saying. “We have more than 300,000 pictures of weapons and military figures in our database along with clips of hundreds of movies, such as ‘Battle for Berlin’, ‘Normandy Invasion’ and ‘Shang Ganling’, a movie about the Korean War,” he added. [Full Text]
See also: A grand perfomance for PLA’s 80th anniversary from Danwei.org.
[Image: A China’s PLA soldier, from Reuters.]
