PLA offers stones from Galwan Valley to lucky netizens

The Western Theater Command of the People’s Liberation Army debuted on Chinese social media on Friday, drawing applause from netizens hoping to be a lucky winner of a special gift sent by the command – a stone taken from the Galwan Valley.

The PLA theater command opened its official account on Twitter like Sina Weibo on Friday and released a notice that on February 1 it will randomly choose 10 lucky netizens from those who reposted the notice and send them a stone from the Galwan Valley as a present.

A picture with Chinese soldiers patrolling the Galwan Valley, with a rockface seen in the post reading in

Chinese characters “Splendid landscape, no inch to give up” was posted together with the notice.

The post quickly went viral across the internet, with many netizens not only reposting the notice but also leaving comments in the hope that they would win one of the lucky stones.

A netizen commented that “the stone from the Galwan Valley is a small record of the heroes’ sacrifice to our country and their stories of safeguarding our motherland.”

Some netizens praised this is a very meaningful present as such a stone showed Chinese people’s attitude of not giving up one inch of the country’s territory.

In a video released by the Global Times on January 1, PLA soldiers sent their new year greetings to the Chinese people. On Thursday, some Indian media claimed that the famous Chinese actor Wu Jing, who acted in and directed Chinese action movie Wolf Warrior, and his wife Xie Nan played soldiers in the video, which is mocked by Chinese netizens for having “face-blindness.”