President Xi Jinping urged the nation's military to make greater efforts in training troops and in safeguarding national sovereignty, security and development, during his visit this week to the Shenyang military theater of operations and a stop at a training session aboard the Liaoning, China's first aircraft carrier.

Xi, who is also chairman of the Central Military Commission and general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, watched carrier-borne aircraft take off and land at the People's Liberation Army navy training base.

Xi applauded the pilots' performance and flights skills under complicated weather conditions. He also listened to a presentation detailing the design and capability of an aircraft.