The 2017 PLA Day parade was a military parade at Zhurihe Training Base in Inner Mongolia, on 1 August 2017 to celebrate the 90th anniversary of founding of the People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the Nanchang uprising that caused its founding.
[1] The parade was the first one to be held outside of Beijing since 1981 and the only one to date to only include military equipment and no marchpast.
[2] Central Military Commission (CMC) Chairman and Party General Secretary Xi Jinping inspected the troops while CMC vice chairman Fan Changlong was the parade's master of ceremonies and General Han Weiguo of the Central Theater Command was parade commander.
According to the Minister of National Defense, this was done to replicate troops in a "dust-covered battlefield atmosphere".
Voice of America pointed out that this violated Article 15 of the Law of the Flag of China.