By Li Yingxin and Zhang Xiaokun
ZHENGZHOU, Dec. 5 -- The first batch of the 15th Chinese peacekeeping engineer contingent to South Sudan (Wau) departed from Xinzheng International Airport in central China's Henan Province on Wednesday morning for the mission area in South Sudan (Wau). The 132 peacekeepers will undertake a one-year peacekeeping mission.
The 15th Chinese peacekeeping engineer contingent is primarily composed of personnel from a brigade under the 83rd Group Army of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA). They will perform such duties as constructing roads, bridges, and airfields, building and maintaining barracks and protective shelters, establishing water and power supply facilities, and providing engineering support to various peacekeeping forces in the mission area.
It is learnt that the second batch peacekeepers of the contingent will arrive in South Sudan on December 18.