"top loading Chinese assault rifles" ?

Read this article today but am not sure exactly what kind of "top loading Chinese assault rifles" the reporter is referring to?



"Some are in light green camouflage and strung with dark-blue magazine pouches. Others are in T-shirts and jeans with bandannas tied around their heads. They carry a mix of aging, bolt-action and top-loading Chinese assault rifles and the occasional squad-operated machine gun. But many don't have any weapons at all."

does he mean SKS rifle?? because that is top loading

Either that, or maybe some sort of Bren-type gun? Anyway, arent most of the WW2 era rifles loaded by stripper-clip? (Top Loading sounds incorrect.)

If that is the case, then it might be an SKS or Mosin Nagant. But in an article in National Geographic that I recently saw, most of the older rifle-types were WW2 era Lee-Enfeild rifles (Mk/No.4 rifles if I am not mistaken). with an ocasional older-style wooden-stock FAL rifle. So it is possible that those are the rifles he refers to, but calls them Chinese by mistake.

i don't thing they mention chinese weapon in that article, only metioned bren and lee