尽管还有很多工作要做，但近年来的趋势表明，解放军正开始将其现代化部队投入运营，承担新的、更具挑战性的任务。

While much work remains, trends in recent years indicate the PLA is beginning to operationalize its modern force, taking on new and more challenging missions.

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Behind this environment are the great social processes of migration and modernization that produced that new urban form, the metropolis.

在这种环境背后是移民和现代化的重大社会进程,所带来的新的城市形式，即大都市。

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