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Chinese government sends 16th peacekeeping mission to DRC composed of medical and engineering personnel

Commitment Year•2013Country of Activity•Democratic Republic of the CongoSector•Government And Civil SocietyFlow Type•Free-standing technical assistance

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date
Jan 1, 2013
Start (actual)
Aug 7, 2013

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

  • People's Liberation Army of China (PLA)

Loan desecription

Chinese government sends 16th peacekeeping mission to DRC composed of medical and engineering personnel

Narrative

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Project narrative

On August 7, 2013, the first echelon of the 16th Chinese peacekeeping force to Democratic Republic of Congo totaling 100 officers and men flew from the Xi’an Xianyang International Airport to the mission area to perform eight-month-long peacekeeping operations. The 16th Chinese peacekeeping force to Democratic Republic of Congo is composed of an engineer detachment and a medical detachment with a total of 218 persons. The members of the engineer detachment are from a regiment under the 47th Combined Corps of the Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) and the members of the medical detachment are from a hospital of a joint logistics sub-department under the PLA Lanzhou Military Area Command (MAC). The 10th peacekeeping team was sent in 2009 (see Record ID#34567).

Staff comments

Peacekeeping expenditures are excluded from ODA calculations.