Chinese Rescue Team Saves Foreigners

2003

On February 24, 2003, a 6.8-magnitude earthquake struck Bachu-Gashi, Xinjiang, and the rescue team took part in the actual rescue for the first time, and played an active role in stabilizing the society and restoring the homes in the disaster area;

On May 21, 2003, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake struck Algeria, and the team made its debut on the international rescue On May 21, 2003, a 6.9-magnitude earthquake occurred in Algeria, and the rescue team made its debut on the international rescue stage, and searched and found one survivor, expanding China's influence in international rescue affairs;

On December 1, 2003, a 6.1-magnitude earthquake occurred in Zhaosu, Xinjiang, and a 7.0-magnitude earthquake occurred in Iran on December 26, and the teams were rushed to the disaster areas to carry out the rescue missions in time.

2004

December 26, the Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami disaster together, China's international rescue team of two batches of *** 70 people went to the disaster area of Indonesia's Banda Aceh, the implementation of a four-week emergency humanitarian relief operations, *** medical treatment of more than 10,000 sick and wounded victims.

In 2005

After the 7.8-magnitude earthquake in Pakistan on October 8, the China International Rescue Team dispatched two batches of 90 people to Pakistan's hardest-hit area of Barakot to carry out 32 days of emergency search and rescue, medical treatment, disease prevention and control, disaster assessment, and post-earthquake trend determination, etc., rescuing three survivors and treating 2,785 sick and wounded people, and for the first time, taking charge as the on-site international rescue coordinator. He also served as an international rescue coordinator for the first time, playing an important role in rescue coordination.

2006

On May 27, 2006, a 6.4 magnitude earthquake occurred in Yogyakarta Special Autonomous Region of Indonesia, and the rescue team went to the hardest-hit area of Bantul to carry out medical treatment, disaster assessment and emergency search and rescue work for 18 days, and the team undertook the medical treatment of nearly 1/4 of the injured people in the affected area of Bantul, and ****treated 3015 injured people. With its excellent style, superb technology, advanced concepts and outstanding work, the rescue team has become an important rescue force in the disaster area, and has been highly evaluated by the local government, the public and the international community, and has strongly cooperated with China's overall foreign aid operations. While carrying out earthquake rescue, the National Earthquake Disaster Emergency Rescue Team has actively played the role of multi-specialty and multi-purpose, and has participated in the Qinghai avalanche and Tianjin Jixian landslide rescue operations.

Wenchuan Earthquake

After the Wenchuan earthquake, CISAR, carrying professional rescue equipment such as life detectors, hydraulic air cushions and search dogs, appeared in front of the affected people in Dujiangyan in the early morning of May 13th at the fastest speed. Dressed in red-orange rescue suits with the word "CHINA" printed on their backs, they successfully rescued 49 survivors.

Haiti Earthquake

An earthquake measuring 7.0 on the Richter scale struck the Caribbean island nation of Haiti at 16:53 local time on January 12, 2010 (5:53 p.m. Beijing time on January 13, 2010) (according to China's seismic network, a strong earthquake measuring 7.3 on the Richter scale occurred in the afternoon of January 12, 2010 at the local time in Haiti), and the capital city of Port-au-Prince and most of the country were seriously affected. The situation is serious.

After the earthquake in Haiti on January 12, the Chinese government quickly responded by sending an international rescue team to Haiti to participate in the rescue.

In the evening of January 13, the Chinese international rescue team from the capital international airport to fly to Haiti to carry out the rescue mission. It is reported that the rescue team line *** counted 68 people, composed of three sub-teams, including 10 people from the State seismological bureau of the expert sub-team. It is understood that the rescue team randomly carried a total value of about 12 million yuan of more than 10 tons of relief supplies, including rescue, communications, logistics, medical care, food and other supplies and equipment and three search and rescue dogs.

In the early morning of January 14th local time, the China International Rescue Team (CIRT) arrived in Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti, on the chartered flight CA6076 of Air China. After arriving at the airport in Port-au-Prince, the leaders of the China International Rescue Team held a meeting to arrange the following work, while the team members began to debug each other's equipment, ready to start the next step of the rescue work. Then, there were already 20 team members, among which 7 were members of the international rescue team, 4 were medics, and the others were from the Ministry of Public Security, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the Earthquake Bureau and some members of the news media. In addition, they carried three search and rescue dogs, directly to the site of the collapse of the headquarters of the United Nations Mission in Haiti by bus, has begun the site investigation and preliminary rescue work. January 13th, the Dominican Republic's rescue team arrived in the morning in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince, began to carry out rescue work. Then in the afternoon of January 13th, rescue teams from the United States, France, Iceland, Puerto Rico and other countries also arrived. Some of their members have already traveled to the headquarters of UNMIH to carry out the rescue. The progress of the rescue is not very fast at the moment. The news we're getting is that 21 people have been rescued from the UNMIH headquarters so far. It's late at night in Port-au-Prince, and rescue efforts in some countries have been suspended. China's international rescue team has just arrived and has already sent a team of 20 people to the scene to start rescue work, the response is very fast.

April 2010 Yushu Earthquake

Yushu County, Qinghai Province, April 14, 2010 morning two earthquakes, the highest magnitude of 7.1, the epicenter of the earthquake is located in the county near the city. 14 evening at 19:55 China National Rescue Team **** 119 people, including a group of military engineering corps of the Beijing Military Region, 60 members of the Search and Rescue Corps, the Armed Police General Hospital, 30 members of the medical team and the State Earthquake Administration. The team, composed of relevant personnel from the State Seismological Bureau, arrived at the disaster area with two large rescue vehicles, nine search and rescue dogs, and mobile hospitals and other search and rescue and medical equipment. Here they will have to overcome the high cold, high altitude and other multiple difficulties to implement the rescue