The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce that was visiting Tanzania visited an elementary school in Dar-es-Salaam on May 31, led by Chen Qiangnan,commanding officer and Huang Xinchang, political commissar of the taskforce.
Three Chinese navy ships on Monday docked at Tanzania's Dar es Salaam Port for a four-day visit, aimed at sharing experience with their Tanzanian counterparts in how to curb piracy in the Indian Ocean.
Escorted by the frigate Xiangtan of the 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforce, a merchant ship named Evangelia L serving for the WFP arrived at the waters near the Port of Berbera in Somalia at on May 23, after a continuous navigation for nearly 10 hours.
The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce ended a four-day friendly visit to South Africa on Friday.
The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce arrived Monday at the Simon's Town naval base of South Africa for a four-day friendly visit.
The 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforce started to provide escort independently for merchant ships in Gulf of Aden on the morning of May 3, local time.
The 22nd and 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforces arrived at the waters in the east Gulf of Aden at 08:00 on Monday, after conducting a joint escort drill in the past two consecutive days and nights.
The 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforce set sail from a naval port in Zhouzhan, east China’s Zhejiang Province, on the morning of April 7, for the Gulf of Aden and the waters off Somali coast to implement merchant ship escort missions there.
China and the United Kingdom conducted their first simulated joint evacuation exercise over the past two days in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province.
A Chinese navy flotilla left port in Qingdao in east China's Shandong Province on Saturday for blue water training and a multilateral disaster relief exercise in Indonesia.
The 21th Chinese naval escort taskforce successfully returned to a military port in Sanya on March 8, 2016, after completing 218-day missions and traveling nearly 90,000 nautical miles.