China,U.S.Stage Search-and-Rescue Exercise

Producer & Editor: Zhao Xianfeng, Ji Guilin, Yang Liming, Lv Guoying, Dong Zhaohui, Xuan Qi, Zhong Jinlin

A total of 200 U.S. marines have come to China with the USS Juneau, which is paying a five-day visit to Zhanjiang. Both Chinese and the U.S. marines will participate in the second phase of the joint search-and-rescue exercise between the two navies on Nov. 19. The exercise will involve China's guided missile destroyer "Zhanjiang", fuel tanker "Dongting Lake", the USS Juneau and the USS missile destroyer Fitzgerald. The first phase in September consisted of communications and passing exercises held in the waters off Hawaii.

Chinese and US marine rescuers close in on an endangered ship

Chinese marine rescuers try to put out a fire with extinguishers

Chinese and US marine rescuers lands on an endangered ship

American marine conducts rescue operation

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China, U.S. stage search-and-rescue drill
　　"ZHANJIANG" MISSILE DESTROYER, South China Sea, Nov. 19 (Xinhua) -- The navies of China and the United States held a search-and-rescue exercise on the South China Sea on Sunday morning.

　　The exercise involved China's guided missile destroyer "Zhanjiang," fuel tanker "Dongting Lake," the USS Juneau (LPD 10) and the USS missile destroyer Fitzgerald.

　　China's Yun-7 transport plane and the U.S. P-3C patrol plane also participated in the exercise. [ more... ]

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