"There are 2143 more border guards on the border!" -- A certain border defense brigade of the Army in the Northern Theater relies on local scientific and technological forces to promote the construction of smart border defense

Xinhua News Agency, Changchun, January 20 title: "There are 2143 more border guards on the border line!" A certain border defense brigade of the Army in the Northern Theater relied on local scientific and technological forces to promote the construction of smart border defense

Mei Shixiong, Liu Baorui, Wang Zhenshu

"With the help of modern technology, with these 2143 infrared cameras, it is equivalent to 2143 more border guards guarding the border line guarded by our brigade." Zheng Binghui, chief of staff of a certain border defense brigade of the Northern Theater Army, said a few days ago when accompanying reporters to the Sino-Russian border in Jilin Province.

Zheng Binghui said that the infrared camera is a real-time transmission ecological perception terminal led by Beijing Normal University - the ecological big data cloud platform of The Northeast Tiger and Leopard National Park, which was originally designed for the protection and monitoring of wild animals such as the Northeast tiger and leopard.

"Behind the infrared camera is a world-leading ecological monitoring system relying on a big data cloud platform and technical means." Pei Jianchi, a doctoral student in ecology at Beijing Normal University, introduced, "In the area where the Northeast Tiger and Leopard are active, we have installed nearly 30,000 such cameras, and shared with the troops 2143 of them near the border line, once there are suspicious people and vehicles moving near the border, the infrared camera can intelligently identify at the first time, and upload the video and location to the cloud platform in real time." ”

The brigade is located at the junction of China, Russia, and the DPRK, and the border line is high and densely forested, the terrain is complex, and the bilateral defense has brought a lot of pressure to the officers and men.

"In recent years, our brigade has actively communicated with local governments, and while making full use of its own video surveillance resources, it has introduced local resources in a timely manner to form a video surveillance network, which plays a very important role in our vigilance and guarding national borders, perceiving the border situation, and improving the efficiency of duty." Zheng Binghui said.

In the command room of the fourth company of the first battalion of the brigade, the reporter saw that the communication duty officer was using a tablet connected to the private network to monitor the border situation through the ecological big data cloud platform, and the platform was easy to operate and the clear picture was at a glance.

It is understood that since the introduction of the ecological big data cloud platform, the number of border smuggling cases in the travel management section has declined for two consecutive years, 33.3% in 2020 compared with 2019, and 83.3% in 2021 compared with 2020. Modern scientific and technological means have brought not only manpower savings, but also stability and tranquility on the border.

In recent years, in order to better fulfill the mission and tasks of the people's army in the new era, the brigade has adhered to strengthening the army with science and technology, taken multiple measures at the same time, and promoted the construction of smart border defense to a new level.

At the Border between China and North Korea, the brigade has set up more than 100 kilometers of smart guardrails, which will automatically alarm when criminals try to cut or climb. The guardrail sets a threshold in units of weight, which effectively reduces the false alarm rate caused by human error or small animal climbing, and saves human resources.

In addition, the brigade has also equipped several sets of radars in the observation buildings of some posts, modern science and technology such as unmanned aerial vehicles and three-dimensional modeling, and the "smart sentry tower" is gradually becoming a reality from concept to reality.

Science and technology is the core combat strength. "These 'clairvoyances' and 'tailwind ears' are the 'multipliers' generated by the combat effectiveness of our border defense forces, and they are good helpers that officers and men can trust." Zheng Binghui said that only with the support of technology can there be a military guarantee, and with advanced science and technology to lead the road of generating new quality combat strength, they will continue to walk firmly. (End)