PLAAF mig29s?

got this pic from china.com, looks quite interesting.

the PLAAF ensignia is clearly visible on the tail. while that can be reletively easy to fake, the two oriental techs working on it looks very much like the real thing.

so could this be the first evidence that china also operates the mig29?

personally, i would think that if the PLAAF has fulcrums, they will only have a reletively small number used mainly for adverary training as opposed to actaul front line service.

the chinese writing on the bottom of the pic says:’ china has obtained several mig29 fighter through special channels and used them for reasearch and as ‘blue flag’ (china’s equivilent of the USAF’s ‘red flag’ adverasary unit).

so what do u guys think? is it a clever fake or is this for real? if so, what implications do this bring?