"Only 35 minutes after we started the evacuation, at 10:50 am, a mortar shell dropped 5 kilometers away from our ship. There was a lot of smoke, and the firing was very close. We had just started security checks and very few of the evacuees were on board."
When Ma Zhi, an ardent travel fan from Beijing, and some friends planned a short visit to the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region in January, they didn't imagine it would include a one-day trip to a foreign country.
Fangchenggang will support its e-commerce industry through favorable policies and by improving supervision, according to a top official at the local commerce bureau.
"Go!" At the word of command, Jia Jiang runs 5 meters in exactly five steps to the salute gun, goes down on his knees and loads the 15 kilogram salute shell into the gun barrel with his right arm. The set of movements is finished in three seconds.
From exhaustion to limited resources and facilities, Chinese healthcare professionals brave trying conditions to go beyond the call of duty by helping residents of Ebola-hit areas deal with the life-threatening epidemic. In their own words, the team members recall their valuable experiences of coming face to face with the scourge that shook the world.
Sierra Leone's President Ernest Bai Koroma has recalled that China had supported the country both in cash and experts in the fight against the disease, saying the Chinese have "come at a time when we needed them most." "You (China) have demonstrated to us that you are our special friends", he said.
China, like many countries, has answered strongly the calls from the World Health Organization and the UN to support response efforts to the Ebola outbreak in West Africa, according to Bernhard Schwartlander, WHO representative in China.
On the team dispatched by the Chinese government to West Africa to combat Ebola, China's top virologist, Gao Fu, who is also a member of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, played different roles.
China will continue its 50 years of medical cooperation with African countries, focusing on helping the countries to improve their capacity to fight infectious diseases, according to China's top health authority.
"Contrast" was the word Zhang Liubo, a disinfection and sanitation expert who has just finished his two-month stint in Sierra Leone, a West African nation still trying to free itself from the deadly grip of the Ebola virus, used to describe his initial feeling of shock.
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