Fang Minglu, great-granddaughter of Chinese military martyr Fang Zhimin, delivers the fire for the 2019 World Military Games Torch Relay in Nanchang on Aug 1, 2019. [Photo by Yu Zhiyong/China Daily]

A torch-lighting ceremony for the 7th Military World Games was held on Thursday in Nanchang in East China's Jiangxi province, cradle of the People's Liberation Army (PLA).

August 1 also marks the 92nd anniversary of the founding of the PLA.