China, as the standing member of the UN Security Council, has participated in 16 UN peacekeeping actions since it firstly joined the action since 1990, assigned 5915 persons/times of peacekeeping military staff, of whom, eight sacrificed their lives and tens injured.

High-spirited Chinese peacekeeping soldiers on the departure ceremony (Xinhua photo)

　　By the end of 2006, China had totally 1478 peacekeeping military staff performing tasks in nine task areas and in the UN peacekeeping troops. Of whom, 92 were military observers and staff officers. 175 were in the engineering detachment and 43 were in the medical detachment to Congo (Kinshasa); 275 were in the engineering detachment, 240 were in the transport detachment, 43 were in the medical detachment to Liberia; 275 were in the engineering detachment, 100 were in the transport detachment, and 60 were in the medical detachment to Sudan; and 182 were in the engineering detachment to Lebanon. During active participation into these international peacekeeping actions, Chinese militaries not only adequately fulfilled their duties to UN, but also demonstrated their excellent image of a fair, mighty and civilized force.

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