13th Chinese peacekeeping engineering contingent to South Sudan (Wau) established

The inaugural meeting for the 13th peacekeeping engineering contingent to South Sudan (Wau) of the Jinan Military Area Command (MAC) of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) was held in an engineer regiment in Laiyang in east China's Shandong province on the morning of September 15, 2014.

The peacekeeping engineering contingent is established mainly from an engineer regiment of the 26th Group Army of the PLA. It is made up of 3 engineering support detachments, 1 support guarantee detachment, 1 guard detachment, and 1 Level-1 hospital, totaling 268 persons. The regiment has successively wrapped up 4 peacekeeping missions in Sudan and South Sudan, and more than 1,000 persons have been awarded the Honorary Medal of Peace by the United Nations.

According to the requirements of the higher authority, the contingent will be deployed to the peacekeeping mission area in Wau, South Sudan, in November to succeed the 12th peacekeeping force in Wau, South Sudan, which was deployed there in March this year, and continue the missions assigned by the United Nations Mission in South Sudan (UNMISS) and its second theater of operations, such as construction of roads, bridges and airport, building of water supply, power supply and heat supply facilities, destruction of weapons and ammunition, transport of personnel and materials, organizing treatment and evacuation of the sick and wounded and epidemic prevention.