16th Chinese peacekeeping force to Congo (K) sets out

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XI’AN, Aug. 8 (ChinaMil) --The first echelon of the 16th Chinese peacekeeping force to Congo (K) totaling 100 officers and men flew yesterday from the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport to the mission area to perform eight-month-long peacekeeping operations.

The 16th Chinese peacekeeping force to Congo (K) is composed of an engineer detachment and a medical detachment with al total of 218 persons. The members of the engineer detachment are from a regiment under the 47th Combined Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the members of the medical detachment are from a hospital of a joint logistics sub-department under the PLA Lanzhou Military Area Command (MAC).

It is learnt that the second echelon totaling 118 officers and men is scheduled to set out on August 14.

Up to now, the regiment has successively dispatched six engineer detachments to Congo (K) for peacekeeping operations, which have completed many engineer support and survey tasks entrusted by the United Nations Organization Stabilization Mission in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (MONUSCO). Besides, the Chinese peacekeeping engineers also spared no efforts to help local people by repairing roads, building schools, offering medical services and medicines, and teaching farming techniques to local residents, etc., winning high praise from local residents as well as the MONUSCO.

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