Twenty-fifth Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to DRC established

中国第25批赴刚果(金)维和工兵分队正式成立

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China Military Online
Editor
Chen Zhuo
Time
2021-08-27 00:00:58


成立大会现场
The picture taken on August 25, 2021 shows the inaugural meeting of the 25th Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to the DRC.

北京,8月26日 -- 8月25日,第25批赴刚果(金)维和工兵分队在第77集团军某工兵旅举行成立大会。

BEIJING, Aug. 26 -- An engineering brigade under the PLA 77th Group Army held the inauguration of the 25th Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) on August 25.

第25批赴刚果(金)维和工兵分队以第77集团军某工兵旅为主组建,共有175人,配备有支援、道桥、建筑3支专业中队。他们将部署在刚果(金)南部的中国半岛营区,主要担负任务区的工程勘察、道路修筑、工程建设、未爆弹药销毁、人道主义救援等任务。

The newly-established contingent consists of 175 service members mainly from an engineering brigade under the PLA 77th Group Army. The 175 peacekeepers are grouped in 3 professional detachments of support, road and bridge repair, and construction. They will be deployed in the “China Peninsula” camp in the south of the DRC as scheduled. In its mission area, the 25th Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent will mainly perform the engineering survey, road repair and construction, engineering construction, unexploded ordnance disposal, and humanitarian rescues as well as other tasks.

据悉,分队官兵将在隔离结束后,于9月12日、10月2日分两批飞赴任务区,与中国第24批赴刚果(金)维和工兵分队进行轮换交接,执行为期一年的维和任务。

It is learned that the 175 persons of the 25th contingent will fly to the mission area in two batches on September 12 and October 2 respectively after quarantine. They will serve on a one-year mission replacing China's 24th peacekeeping engineer contingent to the DRC.

 

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