China and Nepal held the opening ceremony of the joint training for special forces, which was dubbed "Mt. Everest Friendship 201", on Wednesday in Katmandu, capital of Nepal.
The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) sports delegation to the 7th Military World Games was set up at a conference in Beijing on Thursday, said the Games' Executive Committee.
A record 553 athletes selected from the Chinese military will compete in the 7th International Military Sports Council (CISM) Military World Games, said the military authority Thursday.
On September 12, local time, China's 22nd peacekeeping engineer contingent to the Democratic DRC was awarded both collective and individual commendations by Lieutenant General Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho.
On September 11, local time, Lieutenant General Elias Rodrigues Martins Filho, Force Commander of the Peacekeeping Force of the MONUSCO, awarded the 22nd Chinese peacekeeping medical contingent to the DRC a commendation.
On the early hours of September 7, a Ukrainian peacekeeper of the United Nations Multidimensional Integrated Stabilization Mission in Mali (MINUSMA) was airlifted overnight to a Chinese level II hospital in Mali due to acute appendicitis and was treated by the 7th Chinese peacekeeping medical contingent to Mali.
The 18th Chinese peacekeeping multi-functional engineer contingent to Lebanon successfully conducted a security exercise at the camp of the Chinese peacekeeping force in Lebanon and its nearby villages on Sep. 7.
The 33rd fleet from the Chinese PLA Navy on Thursday left the port city of Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province for the Gulf of Aden to escort civilian ships.
Chinese missile destroyer "Xi'an" of the 32nd Chinese naval escort fleet arrived at the port of Alexandria Naval Base of Egypt on Friday for a four-day technical stop.
The 31st fleet of the Chinese PLA returned to Zhanjiang City of south China's Guangdong Province on Friday after completing more than seven months of escort missions in the Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia.
For the past decade, a message that reads "We are the Chinese Navy escort fleet, please call us on channel 16 if you need help" has always been broadcasted in both Chinese and English to passing ships on the Gulf of Aden.
