China News Service, Beijing, September 18 (Reporter Li Chun) The Information Office of the State Council of China released China’s first peacekeeping white paper "The Chinese Army has participated in UN peacekeeping operations for 30 years" in Beijing on the 18th.
The white paper says that China fully implements the UN peacekeeping summit commitments.
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On September 28, 2015, Chinese President Xi Jinping attended the UN Peacekeeping Summit and announced six commitments to support UN peacekeeping operations.
The Chinese government and military resolutely implemented the decision and deployment of Chairman Jinping, fulfilled relevant commitments with practical actions, and achieved a series of important results.
Over the past five years, the composition of China’s peacekeeping forces has expanded from a single service to multiple services and arms. The type of mission has been transformed from support to comprehensive and multi-functional. The operational objectives have extended from stopping armed conflicts to building lasting peace, and peacekeeping capabilities have been further improved.
In terms of completing the establishment of a peacekeeping standby force, in September 2017, the Chinese military completed the registration of an 8,000-person peacekeeping standby force with the United Nations, including infantry, engineering, transportation, medical, security, rapid reaction, helicopters, transport aircraft, drones, and surface ships. In October 2018, 13 peacekeeping standby teams passed the inspection and evaluation of the United Nations organization and were promoted to the second-level standby force; from 2019 to 2020, 6 peacekeeping standby teams were promoted from the second-level For the three-level standby force.
China has become the country with the largest number of UN peacekeeping standby forces and the most complete types of units.
In terms of dispatching more support personnel to participate in UN peacekeeping operations, since the 2015 UN peacekeeping summit, the Chinese military has actively responded to the UN peacekeeping operations’ needs for engineering support and medical treatment. It has dispatched 25 batches of peacekeeping engineers and medical teams totaling 7001 personnel. Participated in peacekeeping operations in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, South Sudan, Darfur, Mali and Lebanon.
In August 2020, the Chinese army has 6 engineering units with 1,188 people and 4 medical units with 199 people, which are performing UN peacekeeping missions.
In terms of completing the task of training peacekeepers for various countries, the Chinese military has successively organized 20 batches of professional trainings in the past five years, including protection of civilians, senior officials of peacekeeping missions, peacekeeping instructors, peacekeeping military professionals, and female peacekeeping officers, and trained peacekeeping for more than 60 countries. There are more than 1,500 personnel.
The Chinese army has carried out demining assistance projects and trained more than 300 deminers for Cambodia, Laos, Ethiopia, Sudan, Zambia, Zimbabwe and other countries.
In addition, the Ministry of Public Security of China has trained more than 1,000 police officers from many countries.
In terms of dispatching the first peacekeeping helicopter unit to carry out the mission, in August 2017, the Chinese army sent the first helicopter unit of 140 people to the African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (UNFID) and deployed 4 medium-sized helicopters. Purpose helicopters, mainly responsible for troop projection, action support, personnel search and rescue evacuation, logistics supply and other tasks.
With regard to the establishment of the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund to support United Nations peacekeeping operations, from 2016 to 2019, the China-United Nations Peace and Development Fund carried out 52 projects in the field of peace and security, using approximately 33.62 million US dollars of funds.
Among them, 23 projects involve support for UN peacekeeping operations, using about 10.38 million U.S. dollars in funds, including the overall planning of UN peacekeeping operations, African peacekeeping capacity building, peacekeeper security, and livelihood projects in Sudan's Darfur and Mali peacekeeping operations.
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