China Ministry of Defense grants disaster response equipment worth 20 million RMB to Ecuador Ministry of Defense in Free Military Assistance Agreement

On November 18, 2015, the Ministries of Defense of China and Ecuador signed a Free Military Assistance Agreement, which provided a grant of 20 million RMB for the provision of materials to address natural disaster risks, such as the El Niño phenomenon and the eventual eruption of the Cotopaxi volcano. On February 18, 2016, the protocol agreement was signed between the same two Ministries, specifying the materials to be granted. They include two series of model CH-902 drones, three model XZJ5160JSQX trucks with cranes, five model 400X250 equipment to fracture stone on a trailer, eighteen model GDQ120A rubber boats, two model WYH5050GYY 2000 liter fuel tanker trucks, four model CGJ5190GYS 10000 water tank trucks, one model ZZ4257N3247C tug boat, one model WYH9550TDP flat bed truck, six generators on trailers with 200 KW capacity, and six model FG6000CE diesel generators. The entire 20 million RMB provided in the Free Military Assistance Agreement was utilized for this grant. It is unknown when/if precisely the materials were delivered, but the protocol agreement specifies they are to arrive within five years of the agreement being signed.

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Although project recipient was the Armed Forces, intent set to "Development" due to the outlined explicit purpose being disaster preparedness.

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