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Gabonese Defense Minister Angelique Ngoma Thursday conferred national and military medals as well as honor certificates on the first Chinese military medical team to the country. At an awards ceremony, the Gabonese military expressed its thanks to the team, praising the staff’s rich experience, hard work and harmonious cooperation with Gabonese colleagues. The team had conducted many difficult …
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A 106-member team of Chinese soldiers left in Lanzhou Thursday for the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) for an eight-month UN peace-keeping operation there. They formed the first batch of China’s 11th peace-keeping team to DRC since 2003. They will be joined by a second batch of 114 soldiers who are scheduled to depart on March 28. The 11th team, all from the Lanzhou Military Area Command …
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Beijing (AFP) March 10, 2010 – China has selected its first two women astronauts to serve on a team that will undertake future missions launched by the nation’s burgeoning space programme, state media reported Wednesday.
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Feb.01 (China Military News cited from Xinhua) — A Chinese medical team has relocated its operation site to a shelter in the Haitian capital where it will provide services more directly and conveniently to earthquake victims, the team’s leader said on Monday.

The Mais Gate shelter is located near the Port-Au-Prince interantional airport and can accommodate as many as 5,000 people, Wang Yurong, head of the team, told Xinhua.

Inside the shelter, both living and working conditions are crude, he said. There are tents provided by international donors and improvised cotes made by locals with tree branches and plastic sheets.

The aim of relocating the team’s operational site from a downtown plaza to the shelter is to provide more direct and convenient services to the earthquake victims, said Wang.

On Monday, the team treated 536 victims and 60 percent of them were women and children.

Since its arrival in the quake-ravageed Caribbean nation on Jan. 25, the team has provided services to more than 1,800 Haitians, and trauma, diarrhea and gynecological diseases were the most common conditions it had treated, according to Wang.

Yang Zhengzhou, an epidemic specialist in the team, told Xinhua that the Mais Gate shelter is pretty much crowded, with garbage littering everywhere and waste water flowing around.

There are many mosquitoes and flies, but they can hardly resist the pesticides and will die instantly after pesticides are used, he said.

Chinese doctors decided to teach the locals with epidemic prevention methods rather than simply giving them the equipment and medicine, said Yang.

The Chinese team gathered 10 volunteers in the shelter and taught them how to prepare the medicines and how to use the sprayers.

Under the team’s instructions, the volunteers conducted a thorough sterilization of the shelter. Thus, even after the Chinese team leaves, locals can do the epidemic prevention work by themselves.

The Chinese team consists of 40 medical workers, among whom are internists, surgeons and anti-epidemic experts from China’s military medical service.

They have participated in other UN peacekeeping missions and the massive rescue mission after a devastating quake hit southwest China’s Sichuan province in 2008.

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BEIJING, Jan. 24 (Xinhua) — A 40-member Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team left here for Haiti on Sunday afternoon on a chartered flight, which also carried 20 tonnes of medical supplies, said the Ministry of Commerce (MOC).

The MOC said earlier in the day that China had decided to provide medical supplies worth 18 million yuan (2.64 million U.S. dollars) in additional aid to quake-ravaged Haiti.

Members of Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team wave before they board a plane to Haiti, in Beijing, capital of China, on Jan. 24, 2010. A 40-member Chinese medical care and epidemic prevention team left here for Haiti on Sunday afternoon on a chartered flight, which also carried 20 tonnes of medical supplies.

The 20-tonne medical supplies included medicines, hygiene equipment, medical devices and camping equipment, said the ministry in a statement.

Also onboard the plane would be four Chinese peace-keeping police officers, replacing the four who were killed in the earthquake. China maintains a 125-member peacekeeping force in Haiti.

The chartered flight was expected to arrive at Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince at 3 p.m. Monday local time.

The MOC statement also said the 40 medical personnel came from China’s military medical system and 70 percent of them had participated in previous UN peacekeeping missions.

Many of them had been involved in the massive rescue mission after the deadly 8.0-magnitude Wenchuan earthquake on May 12, 2008, which left about 87,000 people dead or missing, it said.

At the departure ceremony, Qian Lihua, director of the Ministry of Defense’s foreign affairs office, said China was carrying out its responsibility as a UN Security Council member to help the Haitian people with concrete actions.

Qian said he expected the Chinese medical team to accomplish the mission in a professional manner by helping the Haitian people ward off threat of post-quake epidemic and reconstruct their homeland.

According to the MOC, with the 18 million yuan of additional aid, China has so far provided humanitarian aid worth 48 million yuan in materials and other supplies to Haiti, in addition to 3.6 million U.S. dollars in cash to the Caribbean country.

Apart from Sunday’s delivery of medical aid, China had already provided several other major aids to Haiti, which was hit by a 7.3-magnitude earthquake on Jan. 12 local time.

On Jan. 13, the Red Cross Society of China announced 1 million U.S. dollars in emergency aid to Haiti.

On Jan. 15, the Chinese government announced its decision to provide 30 million yuan worth of humanitarian emergency supplies to Haiti.

On Jan. 21, China’s deputy permanent representative to the UN Liu Zhenmin said China would contribute additional 2.6 million U.S. dollars in cash to Haiti.

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China to send military medical team to quake-hit Haiti(Xinhua)Updated: 2010-01-23 01:09http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2010-01/23/content_9365281.htmBEIJING: The Chinese government has decided to send a military medical team to quake-hit Haiti at the request of the United Nations, a Defense Ministry spokesperson said here Friday. China to send military medical team to quake-hit Haiti Major
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