Thursday marked the eighth anniversary of the launch of the Chinese Navy's escortmission at the Gulf of Aden, the body of water to the north of Somalia in the Horn of Africa,an area of frequent pirate activity.
2016-12-23 16:13A Chinese navy fleet left a port in Zhanjiang in southern China's Guangdong Province for an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday.
2016-12-18 16:54A Chinese navy fleet left a port in Zhanjiang in southern China's Guangdong Province for an escort mission in the Gulf of Aden on Saturday.
2016-12-17 21:16Wang Hongli, commanding officer of the 23rd Chinese naval escort taskforce that was visiting Cambodia, visited Cambodian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Tea Banh on October 17.
2016-10-20 17:50On October 15, local time, the guided-missile frigate Handan of the 24th Chinese naval escort taskforce received an e-mail for help sent from an Indian merchant ship named JAG LATEEF.
2016-10-17 18:10After about 20 hours of continuous navigation, ELENI K, a vessel of the World Food Program (WFP), arrived at the sea area off the Berbera Port, Somalia safely on Oct 6, local time.
2016-10-09 18:05A Chinese naval fleet comprising Xiangtan and Zhoushan of the 23rd Escort Task Group called at the Myanmar International Terminals Thilawa in Yangon's Thanlyin township Friday, following the completion of its escort mission in the Gulf of Aden.
2016-09-30 19:37The 23rd and 24th Chinese naval escort taskforces hosted the hand-over ceremony aboard the Chinese guided-missile frigate Xiangtan on September 2, after completing the 967th escort mission.
2016-09-07 17:38The 24th Chinese naval escort fleet has conducted in the past consecutive days maritime drills of multiple subjects en route to Gulf of Aden and waters off Somalia for escort mission since the fleet departed from Qingdao on August 10.
2016-08-17 17:35The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce left Port of Busan in South Korea on June 27, and headed home after completing its four-day friendly port visit.
2016-06-28 16:39The guided-missile destroyer Xi'an (R) receives fuel and water supplies from the comprehensive supply ship Gaoyouhu by way of alongside replenishment. The comprehensive supply ship Gaoyouhu conducted a replenishment-at-sea with the guided-missile destroyer Xi'an and the guided-missile frigate Hengshui in the western Pacific Ocean on June 23, 2016.
2016-06-24 11:09The Chinese naval guided-missile frigate Xiangtan of the escort taskforce arrived at a military port in Kiel, Germany, at 9 a.m. on June 17, local time, to participate in the Kiel Week activities.
2016-06-20 22:18The 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.
2016-06-02 16:38The 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.
2016-04-08 16:52The 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.
2016-05-03 17:43The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce arrived Monday at the Simon's Town naval base of South Africa for a four-day friendly visit.
2016-05-17 08:25The 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.
2016-03-09 18:05Three 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.
2016-05-31 08:22Escorted 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.
2016-05-24 15:24The 22nd Chinese naval escort taskforce ended a four-day friendly visit to South Africa on Friday.
2016-05-22 15:43The 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.
2016-05-04 18:23China and the United Kingdom conducted their first simulated joint evacuation exercise over the past two days in Nanjing, the capital of Jiangsu province.
2016-03-27 22:43A 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.
2016-03-26 16:33The “Joint Evacuation -2016” China-U.K. joint NEO tabletop exercise was kicked off at the PLA Naval Command College at 09:00 on March 23, 2016.
2016-03-24 17:14The guide-missile frigate Yueyang of the PLA Navy successfully helped out a fishing boat by repairing the damaged hull and treating the wounded crew member on the afternoon of March 8, 2016.
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