公安特警在湖北武汉大练兵

WUHAN - Cars screeching around corners at high speeds, sniper fire from 100 meters away, hijackings, explosions sounds like a Hollywood movie.

高速行驶的汽车在拐弯处发出刺耳的尖叫声，狙击兵百米外射击，还有劫机，爆炸声，听起来就像一部好莱坞电影。

Instead, it was about 2,300 special police from seven provinces and municipalities across the country on a 90-minute training drill in Wuhan of central China's Hubei province on Thursday.

相反，这是来自全国七个省和自治区的2300名特警周三在中国中部湖北省武汉市进行的一场90分钟军事演练。

The drill, which focused on combat skills, field training skills and how to deal with bus hijackings, is part of intensified nationwide training of special police that started this March.

此次演练的焦点是自三月份开始全国特警强化练习的项目包括战斗技能，区域比武，反劫车演练。

Such training has helped special police across the country improve their capability to handle emergencies and perform tasks together, the Ministry of Public security said.

公安部部长称这些训练提高了全国特警处理紧急事情，共同执行任务的能力。

Ministry figures show that China now has about 50,000 special police officers. In the past six years, they helped handle about 5,100 violent crimes and rescued 930 hostages in about 700 hijacking cases.

公安部数据显示中国现有50，000名特警。在国去的六年里，他们处理了5100起暴力犯罪事件，在约700起劫持案中解救了930名人质。