Soldiers prepare for the live-fire training in the Middle Pacific. The Chinese navy's training vessel "Zhenghe" carried out live-fire training in the Middle Pacific on October 23 on its way to South Korean port of Chinhae, the last stop of its ocean-going visit. The training vessel with 171 cadets from three academies of the PLA Navy on board, set sail from the port city of Dalian in northeast China on Sept. 23 and is scheduled to pay port calls to Vladivostok of Russia, Pearl Harbor of the U.S. and Chinhae of South Korea.