On September 29, 2013, the members of the advance team were ready to depart. At the request of the United Nations, China dispatched a 140-strong peacekeeping police riot control team to the UN mission area in Libya on September 29th, 2013. The first batch of 14 members of the advance team departed from Beijing Capital International Airport in the early morning of September 30, 2013, and went to the Libyan peacekeeping mission area. The advance team was mainly responsible for receiving peacekeeping equipment and materials, repairing camps and liaising with the outside world, so as to lay a good foundation for the arrival of the large force in the mission area. This is the first time that China has dispatched a formed peacekeeping police riot control team to Africa.
People's Daily Online reported on March 27, 2014: following China's 15th and 16th batch of peacekeeping medical and engineering detachments to Liberia on the 22nd and 23rd have held a handover ceremony, at 8:00 a.m. on the local time on the 26th, the 15th batch of peacekeeping transport detachment in Monrovia and came to replace the 16th batch of peacekeeping transport detachment officers and men in the battalion area grandly held a rotational handover ceremony. The ceremony was held in the battalion area. Thus, China's peacekeeping force in Liberia has successfully completed the fifteenth rotation and handover.
"What is rotated is the team, what is handed over is the task, and what is passed on is the mission." Li Tiantian, head of the rotation handover steering group and director of the Office of Peacekeeping Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense, said at the handover ceremony that the rotation handover, the two groups of officers and soldiers in the spirit of the same Chinese soldiers, the same for the spirit of peace, not only to hand over the tasks and equipment, but also to hand over the problematic situation, but also to hand over the experience of the practice, to ensure a successful completion of the rotation handover work for the 16th batch of peacekeeping forces to carry out their mission to lay a solid foundation for the next step.
In the past eight months, the 15th batch of 558 officers and soldiers who went to Li to carry out peacekeeping tasks, faced with the complex security situation and poor environmental conditions, overcame difficulties, took the initiative to act, and excellently accomplished the various peacekeeping tasks entrusted by the United Nations, by the UNMIL, the Embassy of the United Nations in Li, as well as the Li government and the people of the widespread praise, all were awarded the United Nations "Peace" Medal of Honor.
During the handover period, the rotational handover steering group composed of the Office of Peacekeeping Affairs of the Ministry of National Defense and the Beijing Military Region also understood the actual difficulties of the peacekeeping forces through on-site research, listening to reports, organizing seminars and individual heart-to-heart talks, and gave targeted advice and suggestions in the light of the actual situation. On March 19, 2014, the twelfth batch of peacekeeping medical team to Wau, South Sudan, drawn from a branch of the Jinan Military Region's Joint Logistics Department, set out to carry out the mission of rotating the peacekeeping forces in the military region. On the same day, China's twelfth batch of peacekeeping medical team to Wau, South Sudan, went out to swearing assembly held in the second independent automobile battalion.
Since late August 2014, the original poor foundation of the Lun-U highway traffic conditions by the impact of heavy rainfall has become even worse, especially Rumbek south of 20 kilometers of the Malau village road section, the roadbed damage is serious, pavement potholes and dents in succession, and in many places the thin mud up to about 1 meter deep. By Sept. 10, dozens of trucks were caught in the mud here, causing the road to be blocked and traffic to come to a standstill.
At the request of the local government and with the consent of UNMIS, our peacekeeping engineering brigade dispatched its elite detachment early in the morning of the 11th to provide emergency assistance. From 8:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m., the officers and soldiers have rescued three vehicles, dug 150 meters of drainage ditches, dug five temporary water storage pits, hauled 300 square meters of red soil, and repaired 200 meters of damaged roads, successfully opening up this transportation trunk line which is related to the national economy and people's livelihood of South Sudan.
On September 11, 2014, China used military personnel for the first time to protect its overseas oil assets and investments. Eight hundred infantry battalion soldiers will be sent to South Sudan in the coming days to protect local oil fields, drilling equipment and Chinese workers. Ateny, the spokesman for the South Sudanese president, said the UN peacekeeping force had the right to allow "the use of all necessary means". He emphasized that the Chinese soldiers were "ready to respond to attacks on civilians and oil field facilities."
On Sept. 25, 2014, Geng Yansheng, spokesman for the Chinese Defense Ministry, said that in accordance with U.N. Security Council resolution 2155 on adjusting the troop strength and authorization of the U.N. Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS), the Chinese army has decided to send a 700-strong peacekeeping infantry battalion to South Sudan to carry out peacekeeping duties at the invitation of the U.N. and approval of the State Council and the Central Military Commission.
Oct. 8, 2015 -- The long patrol detachment of our peacekeeping infantry battalion, which is carrying out long-distance armed patrols in the South Sudan mission area, has repeatedly encountered fierce armed clashes around the temporary base of operations it has set up.
November 1, 2015 my first peacekeeping infantry battalion into the conflict zone to escort the "life supplies" after three days of marching, three camping, in the depths of the savannah trekking more than 300 kilometers, the success of more than 10 cars of the United Nations relief food escorted to the destination. China's first batch of peacekeeping troops to Mali held a formation ceremony in Harbin on the 12th. The newly formed China's first batch of peacekeeping forces to Mali **** there are 395 officers and soldiers, including a 155-person engineer detachment, a 170-person guard detachment and a 70-person medical detachment, respectively, from the 16th Group Army of the Shenyang Military Region, a certain engineer regiment, a certain infantry regiment, and the People's Liberation Army No. 211 Hospital. China's first batch of peacekeeping forces to Mali held a formation ceremony in Harbin on the 12th. This is the first time China has sent security forces to participate in peacekeeping operations. This peacekeeping force will go to Mali in two batches at the end of July and the beginning of September 2013 to undertake the tasks of repairing roads and bridges in the mission area, security and defense of camps, medical rescue and evacuation of the wounded. They have already undergone rigorous study of the regulations and rules of peacekeeping operations, professional skills training in peacekeeping, as well as anti-terrorism and riot control training in the use of light weapons, integrated shooting from infantry vehicles, explosive detection and deactivation, tackling techniques, and other anti-terrorism and anti-riot training, and security and defense operations drills. The Mali peacekeeping is the 30th UN peacekeeping operation since 1989 when China first sent peacekeepers to the UN peacekeeping operations.