Helping to keep the peace
People's Liberation Army troops do their part in peacekeeping missions worldwide
The People's Liberation Army, which regards safeguarding peace and promoting common prosperity as important missions, has been undertaking peacekeeping tasks, disaster relief as well as anti-terrorist operations. There are now more than 1,500 Chinese officers and soldiers who comprise 10 corps that are serving United Nations peacekeeping missions in several conflict-hit countries such as the Democratic Republic of Congo, Liberia and Mali. Over the past 20 years, Chinese peacekeepers, most of them medical personnel and engineers have laid 7,300 kilometers of roads, built more than 200 bridges, treated nearly 28,000 sick people and conducted about 230 surgeries. Sixteen Chinese servicemen have died performing their duties with the overseas peacekeeping missions.
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| Troops on the hospital vessel Peace Ark hold a national-flag raising ceremony in the Gulf of Aden on Sept 30, 2010. The vessel had just completed its seven-day service in Djibouti. Zha Chunming / Xinhua |
| Chinese and Russian soldiers practice Chinese calligraphy during the joint anti-terrorism military exercise Peace Mission-2013 on Aug 7 last year. Tan Changjun / for China Daily |
| 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 |
| Chinese peacekeepers fix a water station for local residents during a deployment to the Democratic Republic of Congo. Zha Chunming / Xinhua |
| A delegate from the US navy experiences traditional medicine therapy on the Chinese hospital vessel Peace Ark during the Rim of the Pacific multinational naval drill in Hawaii on July 3. Hu Kaibing / for China Daily |
| Chinese and Pakistani soldiers play games during a Chinese-Pakistani joint anti-terrorism drill at Qingtongxia, Ningxia Hui autonomous region, on July 5, 2010. Wang Anmin / for China Daily |
(China Daily Africa Weekly 10/03/2014 page4)
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