It did not specify the missile's type and the location where the missile was launched.

The missile test was part of the PLA Rocket Force's annual training plan and was intended to examine the weapon's capability and performance as well as the training level of the troops. The test had achieved its goals, according to a news release from the military.

This has been the first time in more than four decades that China made public its flight test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

The last time the nation made such a flight test public was in May 1980, when the baseline model of the DF-5 was fired from the Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center in northwestern China and hit a preset area in the South Pacific after flying more than 9,000 kilometers. That was the first time a DF-5 missile carried out a full-range flight test.