China steps up UN peacekeeping role

China renewed its commitment to United Nations' peacekeeping and urged the international community to support the latter's efforts at a UN police summit on Thursday.

"We shall invest more in capacity-building. We shall actively host UN workshops, develop mobile training teams in partnership with the UN and give priority to the training programs in Africa, to meet the target of training 1,000 peacekeeping police officers to high-quality standards," said Wang Xiaohong, executive vice-minister of public security, in his speech at the Second UN Chiefs of Police Summit (or UNCOPS) at UN headquarters in New York.

In line with commitments made by President Xi Jinping at the UN Peacekeeping Summit in September 2015, China has completed the establishment and training of two standby police units with 330 officers, and has trained more than 400 peacekeeping officers from other countries.