Modern weapons include the Russian ZSU-23-4 Shilka and Tunguska-M1, South Korean K30 Biho and K263A1 radar-guided Vulcan, Chinese Type 95 SPAAA, Swedish CV9040 AAV, Polish PZA Loara, American M6 Bradley Linebacker and M1097 Humvee Avenger, Yugoslavian BOV-3, Canadian ADATS, aging German Gepard, Japanese Type 87 SPAAG and similar versions with the British Marksman turret ( which was also adapted for a number of other users ), Italian SIDAM 25 and Otomatic, and versions of the French AMX-13.

A Chinese sailor, armed with a Type 56 assault rifle in 1986.

* Chinese PLA models: Type 69 RPG

Chinese Type 96 tanks have also been known to serve in the Sudanese Army.

Indeed this is still the operational model followed by the Chinese Navy with its Type 025 class torpedo boat for the protection of its coastal and estuarial waters.

A Chinese Type 66 claymore mine.

The French Leclerc, Indian Arjun MBT, Japanese Type 90 tank, Pakistan's Al-Khalid tank and Chinese Type 96 / 98 and Type 99 tanks use modular composite armour.

But only the QTL on 3BS from the Chinese cultivar Sumai 3 consistently showed a major effect on Type II resistance across different genetic backgrounds and environments.

* The Chinese Type 54 pistol, also known as the " Black Star pistol "

They also fielded a powerful artillery corps equipped with Soviet 122 mm howitzer 2A18 ( D-30 ) and 130 mm towed field gun M1954 ( M-46 ) pieces, along with truck-mounted BM-11 130 mm and towed BM-12 ( Chinese Type 63 ) 107 mm MBRLs, coupled by Man-portable, shoulder-launched Soviet SAM-7 ‘ Grail ’ AA missiles which were used to bring down two Lebanese Air Force Hawker Hunter fighter jets during the 1983-84 ‘ Mountain War ’.

* " Type 56 " 7. 62x39mm semi-automatic rifle ( Chinese copy of the Kalashnikov AK-47 )

Chinese destroyer Lanzhou ( 170 ) | Lanzhou ( 170 ), a Type 052C destroyer

* Chinese Type 24 Heavy Machine Gun ( Copies of the Commercial 1909 )

They are inscribed ( in Chinese ) " Type 17 " on the left hand side of the gun, and " Republic Year Eighteen, Made in Shansi " on the right hand side.

The stick grenade concept was also used in the Far East by the Imperial Japanese Army as the Type 98 grenade and the Chinese National Revolutionary Army in World War II, and later the Chinese Communists, who supplied the locally-manufactured " Type 67 " to the NLF and People's Army of Vietnam.

The lightweight Type 94 proved effective in China as the Chinese National Revolutionary Army consisted of only three tank battalions to oppose them, and those tank battalions only consisted of some British export models and Italian CV-33 tankettes.

The Type 97 was successfully fielded in China during the Second Sino-Japanese War of 1938 – 1945, as the Chinese National Revolutionary Army had only three tank battalions, which themselves consisted of some Italian CV33 tankettes.

It was announced on 24 January 2006 that Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao would visit Fiji that April to open the China-Pacific Islands Countries Economic Development & Cooperation Forum Ministerial Conference 2006 at Sofitel Fiji Resort in Nadi, a conference of economic and trade ministers from Pacific island countries.

On February 24, 2010, Reuters reported that the Chinese ministry of commerce had prevented the deal, although a ministry spokesperson denied rejecting the application, which had been stalled for eight months.

John Nkomo, Speaker of the House of Assembly of Zimbabwe, praised China's investment on 24 April 2007 during a state dinner in Harare held during the four-day visit of Jia Qinglin, Chairman of the National Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, to Zimbabwe.

* December 11 – 12 – Malayan Emergency: Batang Kali massacre: Scots Guards shoot 24 Chinese villagers in Malaya

* August 24 – Yang Yang, Chinese short track skater

* February 24 – Hu Shi, Chinese liberal ( b. 1891 )

A major naval accident occurred on 24 November 1999 at Yantai, Shandong, China when the 9, 000-ton Chinese ferry Dashun caught fire and capsized in rough seas.

* 645 BC — In the Chinese book of the Spring and Autumn Annals, it was recorded that on December 24 of this year there were five meteors seen in the sky over what is now northern Shanqiu County, Henan Province.

About 24. 6 % of the population are Malaysians of Chinese descent.

The great king Yu () tried to channel the water out to sea where then emerged from the water a turtle with a curious figure / pattern on its shell ; circular dots of numbers which were arranged in a three by three grid pattern such that the sum of the numbers in each row, column and diagonal was the same: 15, which is also the number of days in each of the 24 cycles of the Chinese solar year.

Gladys May Aylward ( Chinese name: 艾偉德, pinyin: ài wěi dé ) ( 24 February 1902 – 3 January 1970 ) was the evangelical Christian missionary to China whose story was told in the book The Small Woman by Alan Burgess, published in 1957.

* Model 24 grenade ( Chinese copies ) Communists, warlords, Nationalists

Of the 134, 497 people accounted for by the 2002 Guyanese Census, about 70, 962 ( 53 %) listed themselves as Black / African ; 31, 902 ( 24 %) as mixed ; 26, 542 ( 20 %) as East Indian ; 1, 441 ( 1. 1 %) as Amerindian ; 675 ( 0. 5 %) as Portuguese ; 475 ( 0. 35 %) as Chinese ; 2, 265 ( 1. 7 %) as " don't know / not stated "; 196 ( 0. 15 %) as white not of Portuguese descent ; 35 as " other ".

On 19 June, the Empress Dowager notified the legations that the diplomats and other foreigners should depart Beijing under escort of the Chinese army within 24 hours.

China has used 24 billion metres squared of new forest plantation and natural forest regrowth to offset 21 % of Chinese fossil fuel emissions in 2000.

Hu Shih (, 17 December 1891 – 24 February 1962 ), born Simen () and originally wrote under Hu Hung-hsing () with the courtesy name Xijiang (), was a Chinese philosopher, essayist and diplomat.

Liu Shaoqi ( IPA: ; 24 November 189812 November 1969 ) was a Chinese revolutionary, statesman, and theorist.

Chang-lin Tien (; July 24, 1935 – October 29, 2002 ) was a Chinese American professor of mechanical engineering and university administrator.

On the night of 24 June 1859, a small batch of British forces blew up the iron obstacles that the Chinese had placed in the Baihe River.

On October 24, 2008, Pelosi commended the European Parliament for its " bold decision " to award the Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought to Chinese dissident and human rights activist Hu Jia.

On September 24, 1875, McCarty was arrested again when found in possession of clothing and firearms that a fellow boarder had stolen from a Chinese laundry owner.

Robert Hans van Gulik (, August 9, 1910, Zutphen – September 24, 1967, The Hague ) was a highly educated orientalist, diplomat, musician ( of the guqin ), and writer, best known for the Judge Dee mysteries, the protagonist of which he borrowed from the 18th-century Chinese detective novel Dee Goong An.

Dr. An Wang (; February 7, 1920 – March 24, 1990 ) was a Chinese American computer engineer and inventor, and co-founder of computer company Wang Laboratories, which was known primarily for its dedicated word processing machines.

In 2009, a Chinese manufacturer, Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company, announced that it would acquire Hummer, pending government approvals, but later withdrew its bid.

After GM announced that same day that the sale was to an undisclosed Chinese company, CNN and the New York Times identified the buyer of the Hummer truck unit as China-based Sichuan Tengzhong Heavy Industrial Machinery Company Ltd. Later that day, Sichuan Tengzhong itself announced the deal on their own website.

* Browning M1917A1 Heavy Machine Gun ( Chinese copy ), Nationalists

Heavy influence is derived from Cantonese culture from the neighbouring Chinese province of Guangdong.

Heavy fighting continued after the 23rd and the Chinese retreated southward to attract the Japanese while supporting battalions arrived on the east and the west for encirclement maneuver.

Heavy Japanese arquebus fire forced the Chinese sailors to keep their heads low, while the Japanese closed in.