On the fourth day of their arrival at their barracks in Wau, the officers and men of the fourth batch of the Chinese peacekeeping transport group to Sudan didn't expect that they would be ordered to carry out an urgent and difficult trans-war-theater task from the UN Mission in Sudan to transport 320 soldiers of local united and assembled force to Abyei. At that time, they had performed peacekeeping mission for less than nine hours, and nearly half of the Chinese officers and men of the second echelon had not yet reached the mission zone.

　　The infrastructure in Sudan is underdeveloped. The entire mission zone has no paved roads. To accomplish the mission, they had to go through wetlands, tropical jungles and minefields and other hazardous sectors, and it was the rainy season, vehicles chugged with difficulty up the roads. What worried them most was the safety of peacekeepers, as stragglers with guns as well as artillery shells and cartridges could be seen everywhere along the way. In that area, to drive a single vehicle at the speed of 20 kilometers per hour was considered "high speed". However, it took the convoy of the Chinese peacekeepers only 12 hours to finish the 280-kilometer journey.

　　The Chinese transport peacekeepers created four "first times" in this mission, that is, the first time to transport personnel from one war theater to another, the first time to organize long march without prior road survey, the first time to carry so many local armed personnel to pass through areas where fierce conflicts once occurred, and the first time to cover a distance of 280 kilometers in a day. On the morning of July 7, local time, Col. Gorrie the commander of the Second War Theater of the UN Mission in Sudan visited Chinese peacekeepers in their barracks and attended the a commendation ceremony for the 26 officers and men who successfully fulfilled the long-distance transport mission to Abyei. He said to commander of the Chinese transport peacekeeping group: "The transport mission to Abyei has been perfectly fulfilled. The standard of the Chinese peacekeeping force in fulfilling the mission is the standard of the UN Mission in Sudan!"

　　(July 9, PLA Daily)                               Editor: Ouyang Dongmei