Helping to keep the peace
People's Liberation Army troops do their part in peacekeeping missions worldwide, Zhao Lei reports.
The People's Liberation Army, which regards safeguarding world peace and promoting common prosperity as important missions, has been actively undertaking peacekeeping tasks, disaster relief as well as anti-terrorist operations. Currently, there are more than 1,500 Chinese officers and soldiers who comprise 10 corps that are serving United Nations peacekeeping missions in several conflict-hit nations such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Mali. Over the past two decades, Chinese peacekeepers, most of them medical personnel and engineers, laid 7,300 kilometers of roads, built more than 200 bridges, treated nearly 28,000 sick people and conducted some 230 surgeries. A total of 16 Chinese servicemen died performing their duties during the overseas peacekeeping missions.
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Troops on the hospital vessel He Ping Fang Zhou hold a national-flag raising ceremony at the Gulf of Aden on Sept 30, 2010. The vessel had just completed its seven-day service in Djibouti. Zha Chunming / Xinhua |
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Chinese and Russian soldiers practice Chinese calligraphy during the joint anti-terrorism military exercise "Peace Mission-2013" on Aug 7, 2013. Tan Changjun / For China Daily |
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A Chinese warship takes part in a multinational maritime joint operation called Sea Cooperation 2014, at a naval port in Qingdao in April. Xiong Libing / For China Daily |
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Seamen of Chinese ship Qiandaohu salvage suspected floating objects during the search for Malaysia Airlines flight MH 370 in the southern Indian Ocean in April. Dai Zongfeng / For China Daily |
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Chinese peacekeepers fix a water station for local residents during a peacekeeping detachment to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Yang Long / For China Daily |
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A seaman of the Chinese navy takes part in the 16th-batch of the escort mission to transport Syria's chemical weapons in April. Xu Guang / For China Daily |
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Chinese and Pakistani soldiers play games during a Chinese-Pakistani joint anti-terrorism drill at Qingtongxia in the Ningxia Hui autonomous region on July 5, 2010. Wang Anmin / For China Daily |
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A delegate from the US navy experiences traditional medicine therapy on Chinese hospital vessel He Ping Fang Zhou, during the Rim of the Pacific multinational naval drill in Hawaii on July 3. Hu Kaibing / For China Daily |
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Chinese female peacekeepers in Liberia in 2005. Wang Anmin / For China Daily |
(China Daily 10/02/2014 page6)
