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The Chinese People's Liberation Army (PLA) Navy hospital ship, Auspicious Ark, deployed for Mission Harmony-2026, made a technical stop at the PLA's support base in Djibouti on Tuesday local time, where it is scheduled to provide medical services. A Chinese expert said that in addition to addressing the healthcare challenges facing Chinese military personnel stationed overseas, the ship can extend humanitarian medical assistance locally, thereby demonstrating China's commitment to fulfilling its responsibilities through concrete actions.
The ship moored at the dock of the PLA support base in Djibouti at around 7 am, with mission personnel waving to those who came to greet them onshore. Staff from the Chinese Embassy in Djibouti, service members stationed at the support base, and representatives from the 48th Chinese Naval Escort Taskforce attended the welcome ceremony, according to a release from China's Ministry of National Defense on Wednesday.
During the technical stop, the ship will replenish supplies including food and fuel and provide medical treatment for troops stationed at the support base as well as service members of the escort taskforce, according to the release.
According to a video clip released by China Central Television (CCTV) at noon on Wednesday, the Type 052D destroyer Tangshan from the 48th Chinese Naval Escort Taskforce is also currently docked at Djibouti.
Commissioned in 2025, the newest Auspicious Ark is equipped with virtually all the sophisticated medical equipment found in a top-tier hospital, enabling it to provide effective, professional medical care across a variety of operational settings. It has since taken part in several maritime medical support exercises, the Xinhua News Agency reported.
Equipped with 18 clinical departments and five auxiliary diagnostic units, the ship is capable of performing more than 60 types of medical examinations, treatments and procedures spanning general surgery, orthopedics, obstetrics and gynecology, ophthalmology and more. Its eight onboard standard operating rooms support simultaneous surgeries, while an onboard helicopter enhances its emergency medical rescue capabilities, per Xinhua.
The Chinese hospital ship maintains a standard of diagnosis and treatment equivalent to that of a tertiary hospital, the top of China's grade hospital system, enabling it to accurately diagnose and treat the ailments of military personnel deployed overseas, Song Zhongping, a Chinese military affairs expert, told the Global Times on Wednesday.
Given Djibouti's harsh climatic environment, the ship's stopover there also reflects the care extended to military personnel stationed overseas, Song added. He said he expects the PLA to send hospital ships to the PLA Support Base in Djibouti on a regular basis.
Mission Harmony-2026, the 12th iteration of Mission Harmony since 2010, is scheduled to last over 200 days, during which the ship will visit multiple African and South Asian countries to provide free medical services to local populations, Xinhua reported.
Since setting sail on July 22, the task force has conducted a series of drills covering counter-terrorism and anti-piracy operations, helicopter-borne maritime medical evacuation, reconnaissance and evidence collection. These exercises are designed to bolster emergency response capabilities and ensure personnel and equipment remain in optimal condition, according to China's Ministry of National Defense.
The current security situation in the Middle East remains precarious, with the potential to spill over into Africa. In this context, the present mission is well positioned to provide timely rescue and relief operations in the event of regional contingencies, Song said. With the Ebola virus still rampant across parts of Africa, the Chinese hospital ship could also provide humanitarian medical support whenever public health crises emerge in neighboring countries, he added.
These tangible efforts exemplify China's commitment to upholding global responsibility and conveying goodwill through practical, peace-oriented actions, according to Song.
Mission Harmony is an overseas humanitarian medical service program organized by the PLA Navy. This initiative aims to enhance traditional friendship and pragmatic cooperation between China and relevant countries, provide the international community with more public security products, better implement the Global Security Initiative, and contribute to building a maritime community with a shared future, according to a prior statement from China's Ministry of National Defense.
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二 | Individual European nations achieving gas security by stocking up their underground storage facility reserves to 80 percent or more of their capacity won’t stop an energy crisis across the region unless the bloc collectively reaches this figure, Dutch Energy Minister Rob Jetten has warned.,“It’s great if individual member states are able to fill their gas storages before November 1, but if other countries are not able to reach 80 percent – and especially big countries like Germany – then you have to be aware that this will be a domino effect for the whole of Europe,” Jetten told Politico on the sidelines of the EU’s Energy Council meeting on Monday.,Jetten promised that Amsterdam would show “solidarity” with its neighbors if Russia-sourced gas supplies were cut off, but indicated that it would only consider increasing production at the Groningen – Europe’s largest gas field, if all other measures proved insufficient.,“Only in the situation with all countries in the northwestern Europe in phase three [of their emergency plans], and having taken all the other measures you can take to prevent gas shortages, then we can consider production,” the minister said.,The decades-long extraction of gas from the massive Groningen field has been complicated by earthquakes scaring local residents and damaging property, with Amsterdam previously promising to shut down the field in the coming years. The self-inflicted energy price hike facing Europe has led to speculation that the field’s operation could be extended. However, Jetten insisted that under current plans, the field would be shut down by next year or in 2024 at the latest.,For now though, instead of expanding drilling in Groningen, Amsterdam has resorted to burning more coal, and is preparing to announce plans to build a pair of nuclear power plants. Additionally, Amsterdam and Berlin have reached a cooperation pact to jointly search for gas in the North Sea, with hopes that production of any reserves that are tapped can begin in 2024.,Jetten admitted that “quitting” the Groningen field will mean “a huge drop in national gas production from the Netherlands. Everything we’re doing in the North Sea with the smaller fields, it’s not comparable with what we did in Groningen. So net gas production in the Netherlands will go down at a very high pace,” he said.,European countries are scrambling to juggle the next-to-impossible task of shoring up their underground gas storage reserves while dramatically scaling down Russian energy deliveries. Last month, Germany’s Julich Research Centre calculated that without Russian gas, filling up the storage tanks and continuing to operate industry as normal in normal economic conditions may be mathematically impossible to accomplish.,EU Can’t Fill Winter Gas Reserves, Simultaneously Operate Industry Without Russian Supplies: Report1 May, 13:38 GMT,Earlier this month, energy specialists told Bloomberg that instead of filling up reserves in the summer months, EU countries are actually chipping away at their reserves. Gas Infrastructure Europe, a Brussels-based organization representing infrastructure operators across the bloc, keeps up to date tabs on European countries’ storage facilities’ status. According to GIE figures, storage facilities are just 56.97 full at present, with the United Kingdom and Poland boasting the highest ratings, of 95 and 97 percent, respectively, while the tanks of Bulgaria, Croatia, Hungary and Sweden at sitting at between 27-37 percent of capacity.,Last month, Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed regret that Moscow’s European Union partners had decided to cut down on the purchase of Russian energy “under pressure from their American overlords,” and characterized the move as a form of economic “suicide.”,“One gets the impression that our Western colleagues, politicians and economists have simply forgotten the foundations of the elementary laws of economics, or, to their detriment, prefer to deliberately ignore them,” Putin said. Putin predicted that higher energy prices will severely undermine the European Union’s economic competitiveness vis-à-vis other regions of the world.,Russia’s energy exports have yet to show signs of being affected by the EU and US energy ban, with state energy companies reporting record profits as prices climb and supplies are shifted to other markets.,European Firms Double Shipments of Russian Oil In Spite of Sanctions–Report8 June, 03:41 GMT。
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