Original Source of Article: http://www.news.cn/mil/2022-04/29/c_1211642438.htm
Publication Date: 29.04.2022
Accessed Date: 29.04.2022
Translator: Jan Ziegler
Translation Date: 01.05.2022
Introduction: The Article discusses China's peacekeeping and joint military exercise in Congo.
Title: Original version (Chinese)
中国赴刚果（金）维和工兵分队与友军开展联合防卫演练
新华社布拉柴维尔4月28日电 金沙萨消息：面对日趋紧张的安全形势，
中国第25批赴刚果（金）维和工兵分队巴拉卡分遣点官兵28日与印度尼西亚维和快速反应营展开了一场施工过程中遭袭模拟演练，以提高应急处置突发情况能力。
"所有人员停止作业，迅速请领武器，就地组织防御" 带队干部石光绪接到警戒人员情况报告后，迅速通过对讲机向所有人员下达指令。
"我们是中国维和官兵，修路是为了方便你们出行，请你们离开" 翻译苏泽威用当地语言向 "袭扰人员" 进行喊话。
我维和官兵与维和友军针对 "袭扰" 进行了联合防卫演练。两国维和官兵迅速启动应急处突预案，密切配合请领武器，占领有利地形，最终将"袭扰人员"成功驱离。
2003年4月，应联合国邀请，中国派出首支赴刚果（金）维和工兵、医疗分队参与维和行动。迄今，中国已向刚果（金）任务区派出25批次维和工兵、医疗分队，维和人员超过3000人次，在任务区数百个点位执行了上千项工程保障任务，赢得当地民众和国际社会的广泛赞誉。
English Translation
Chinese Peacekeeping Military Engineering Unit in Congo (DRC) conducts Joint Defence Exercise with Allied Troops
Xinhua News Agency Brazzaville April 28th. In the face of the increasingly tense security situation, officers and Soldiers of the Baraka Detachment Point of China's 25th Peacekeeping Engineering Detachment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) conducted a simulated exercise on the 28th. With the Indonesian peacekeeping rapid reaction battalion on the condition of being attacked during the construction process, in order to improve emergency response capability.
"All personnel, cease operations, immediately obtain weapons and organize defence on the spot." After leading cadre Shi Guangxu received the information report by the officers, all personnel are promptly instructed trough the intercom. "We are Chinese peacekeepers. We are building roads to facilitate your travel. Please leave." Translator, Su Zewei, called out the "harassing troops" in local language.
Our Peacekeeping officers and soldiers together with the friendly forces conducted joint defence drills against "harassing attacks". Peacekeeping officers and soldiers of the two countries quickly activated the emergency response plan, working closely to get weapons and occupy strategic terrain, and eventually successfully dispersed the "attackers".
After the exercise, Shi Guangxu said: "Through this joint exercise with friendly forces, we have further familiarized ourselves with various emergency response plans, approving the ability of the two militaries to quickly and effectively handle emergencies and to ensure that this road repair task I completed more safely."
In April 2003, at the invitation of the United Nations, China sent its first peacekeeping engineer and medical detachment to the Democratic Republic of the Congo to participate in peacekeeping operations.
So far, China has sent 25 batches of peacekeeping engineers and medical detachments to Congo (DRC) mission area, with more than 3,000 peacekeepers serving there, performed thousands of engineering support tasks at hundreds of locations in the mission area and has won wide acclaim from local people and the international community.
Translator's views:
The highly volatile region of eastern Congo (DRC) is a target of different armed groups conflicting each other and governmental security forces, the location is rich in minerals such as cobalt, tin, copper which are often extracted within the informal mining sectors. The PLA represents a mix of different military forces pursuing different goals: managing military hospitals, military engineering units who build roads and infrastructure, and staff officers who prepare operational plans and coordinate logistics, which are all serving as part of united Nation's peacekeeping operations. In the last decades China has rapidly expanded it's influence in Africa across diplomatically, informationally, militarily and economically spectrums to support, like all other countries, its foreign policy goals. Within the military domain, a key aspect of the PRC's influence is its use of UN peacekeeping operations, today China is the second largest financial contributor, a major contributor to UN Peacekeeping Trainings and among the 122 countries that provide troops to UN peacekeeping China is the ninth largest contributor providing troops with 2,470 blue helmets.
The translation reflects the translator's personal opinion and is not a general opinion.
生词 (New Words):
- 刚果 - Gāngguǒ - Congo
- 布拉柴维尔 - Bùlācháiwéi'ěr - Brazzaville
- 金沙萨 - Jīnshāsà - Kinshasa
- 维和 - Wéihé -Peacekeeping
- 工兵部队 - Gōngbīng bùduì - Military Engineering Troops
- 巴拉卡 - Bālākǎ - Baraka (City in eastern Province of Congo DRC)
- 官兵 – Guānbīng - Officers and Soldiers
- 营- Yíng - battalion
- 遭袭 - Zāo xí - suffer surprise attack
- 联合防卫演练 - Liánhé fángwèi yǎnliàn - Joint Defence Exercise
- 友军 - Yǒujūn - Allied Forces
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