In order to improve their international peacekeeping and security capabilities, Chinese armed forces train in strict accordance with UN standards and have developed an elementary- intermediate-advanced training system, which enables China to cultivate and reserve peacekeeping personnel at various levels.
Currently, the MOD’s peacekeeping center has more than 3,800 intermediate or senior trained personnel. Each year, it also holds two or three international training sessions and carries out exchanges and cooperation with more than 80 countries and international organizations.
The data, operation and mechanisms mentioned above detail China’s 25-year endeavor in peacekeeping, and demonstrate the importance it attaches to safeguarding world peace.
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In UN peacekeeping operations, there is no “enemy”, but that does not mean that peacekeepers are not in danger.
Prolonged conflicts, rampant disease, and hot weather – all peacekeeping missions hold challenges and tests.
In Sudan's Darfur, peacekeeping bases were subject to attack by unknown militants at any time. Chinese soldier Sun Rupeng said: "I never knew when there might be a gun aimed at me from the jungle."
In southern Lebanon, the war had left about 130,000 different mines strewn through the daily workplace of China’s peacekeeping engineers.
In missions in Western Sahara and the Ivory Coast, military observers have to shuttle through conflict zones and minefields to collect intelligence for the UN from different parties and refugee camps.
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Such hostile environments inspire the forces determination. "The harsher the conditions, the higher the standard we expect of ourselves and the missions." Chinese peacekeepers demonstrate this dedication through their actions.
In Cambodia, Chinese peacekeepers famously “built a bridge in one day”.
In the DRC, peacekeepers built four rows of makeshift houses on rocky slopes strewn with rubble and waste in under two months.
During the dry season in Mali, the temperature soars to almost 50 degrees centigrade. Peacekeeper Ge Junchen said, "It seems hot enough to ignite a matchstick."
In such heat, peacekeepers built a level-two hospital in less than four months.
Despite the high work rate, the quality of the Chinese peacekeepers’ work was never compromised.
In South Sudan’s Wau County, 94 Chinese peacekeepers constructed the region’s best road – a 3-km road linking the base and the airport – in three days.
