Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-06-30

Party Flag Flying Over the South China Sea: Ships Bear Witness to the Red Legacy

南海之上党旗飘扬“舰”证红色传承

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Desk	China Desk
Publishing institution	CMC Political Work Department
Source outlet	PLA Daily (解放军报) (pla_daily)
Source language	zh-Hans — an attribute of the source, not of this record
Source-stated publication date	2026-06-30
Original URL	http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16470878.html
Collected at	2026-06-30 15:07:58 — collection metadata, not a publication time
Content fingerprint	9d1d60e1be4892fdd362700dbb8865f876185653a12c52ac143f60038cf6f5ad — taken when the record was captured, over the stored original title and text
Collection run	73
Analysis model	claude-sonnet-4-6
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当前，中国海警东安舰、南薰舰正在我国南海仙宾礁及其附近海域常态化开展维权执法任务。为迎接“七一”，海警舰艇在南海的万顷碧波中共同举行了一场主题党日活动。

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CCG vessels Dong'an and Nanxun, operating at Xianbin Reef in the South China Sea, held a themed Party Day activity ahead of the July 1st CCP founding anniversary. This is standard political work content tied to the Party calendar; its value is as a record of how the CCG integrates political education into forward-deployed operations at a contested feature, not as evidence of changed posture or escalated activity at Xianbin Reef.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "南海之上党旗飘扬“舰”证红色传承." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-06-30. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16470878.html.

As held. Indo-Pacific Record, China Desk Corpus, Record 1938, Snapshot — 2026-08-26 (3,574 records).

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