Chinese Soldiers Implement UN Peacekeeping Missions Worldwide

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892215.htmlMembers of a Chinese peacekeeping medical team conduct health examination for kids in an SOS Children's Village in Bukavu, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Oct. 1, 2009. Over the two decades since it sent its first peacekeeping troop to Cambodia in April 1992, China has participated in more than 20 UN peacekeeping missions, dispatching a total of 20,000 soldiers. There are now nearly 2,000 Chinese peacekeepers carrying out their tasks in 12 peacekeeping missions. Chinese peacekeeping troops are formed by members of the People's Liberation Army (PLA), which will celebrate its 85th founding anniversary on August 1, 2012. (Xinhua/He Changzhen)

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Two members of China's eighth peacekeeping sapper unit to Lebanon carry out a bomb disposal task at the Lebanese side of the Lebanon-Israel border, May 13, 2011.

Two members of China's eighth peacekeeping sapper unit to Lebanon carry out a bomb disposal task at the Lebanese side of the Lebanon-Israel border, May 13, 2011. 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892213.htmlA member of China's 12th peacekeeping sapper unit to the Democratic Republic of the Congo carries out his task in the eastern city of Bukavu, Feb. 8, 2011. 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892212.htmlA Chinese peacekeeper takes prone position on the roof of a vehicle during a military drill in Zwedru, Liberia, Oct. 9, 2004.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892211.htmlMembers of a Chinese peacekeeping troop push a truck trapped in mud during a transport mission from Monrovia to Voinjama, Liberia, June 2, 2006.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892210.htmlLocal citizens drive on a road built by Chinese peacekeeping sappers in Lebanon, Nov. 27, 2011. 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892209.htmlSix Chinese military observers pose for photos after arriving in Damascus, capital of Syria, May 14, 2012.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892208.htmlCitizens receive drinking water provided by a Chinese peacekeeping troop in Klay, Liberia, Nov. 15, 2005.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892207.htmlA Chinese peacekeeper stands guard at a military base in Darfur, Sudan, Feb. 14, 2010. 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892206.htmlChinese peacekeepers and their international colleagues celebrate the accomplishment a Ghanaian peacekeeping base, which they helped build, in southern Lebanon, April 25, 2011. 

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/102774/7892205.htmlChinese peacekeepers attend the founding ceremony of the country's tenth peacekeeping engineer team to South Sudan in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, July 23, 2012.

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90786/7892090.htmlChinese peacekeepers attend the founding ceremony of the country's tenth peacekeeping engineer team to South Sudan in Yantai, east China's Shandong Province, July 23, 2012.