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Peacekeepers with Chinese characteristics 导读:海地发生强震后,各国的救援(rescue)力量纷纷投身当地的重建工作。由于物资紧缺,中国维和部队更是发扬“苦中作乐”的精神,在完成维和任务之余,更是自力更生,耕地种菜。这不仅丰富了队员们的餐桌,更是为广大官兵带来了许多乐趣。
同其他国家的维和部队一样,中国驻海地维和队员从事着包括街道巡逻、守卫重地以及检查车辆在内的各种工作。但有一件事情是独一无二,中国式的。 They grow a dozen kinds of vegetables inside their compound in the Sonapi industrial zone near the airport in Port-au-Prince, ranging from Chinese cabbage, spinach and sponge gourd to garlic and radish. In fact, the nine battalion teams, each with 10 police officers, all have their small plot of farmland. And there is a monthly competition to assess who produce the most veggies, according to Hou Huiqian director of the office for the command center of Chinese UN peacekeeping police in Haiti. Around 5pm each afternoon, Hou would take a walk to the three different veggie plots inside the compound. "It provides a good supply of fresh veggies and vitamin to our peacekeepers," Hou said. He said that UN peacekeepers from other nations and visiting official from China are both amazed by the scene. Besides China, Sri Lankan peacekeepers are probably the only other forces which grow only one kind of vegetable in their base. On the inside wall surrounding the peacekeeping compound, huge Chinese characters meaning "Keep the Spirit of Nanniwan" were written. Nanniwan was a site of a famous farming movement launched by the Chinese communist army in the 1930s in a bid to survive the aggressive encroachment of the mighty KMT army. On a late afternoon this past weekend, peacekeepers were seen watering vegetables, spraying organic fertilizer, getting rid of the weeds and harvesting ready ones. Some of the veggies might end in the dinner table an hour later or the next day. Every team has a few from the countryside and they are the ones doing the key work such as watering. For people who never did farm work, he starts by picking up weeds, said a soldier ploughing the land. "This is a lot of fun after standing on guard and patrolling in the day," said Chen Yongjun, a senior officer of the Chinese peacekeepers. The home-grown veggies now accommodate for some 60 per cent of the vegetable supply in the Chinese compound, he said. Chen Yongjun, from Yunnan province, said he did not learn how to grow vegetable until he joined the army. "I have been in service for 15 years and I know a lot about the growing veggies now," said Chen, who served in China`s Southwest Yunnnan border frontier before coming to Haiti. Another peacekeeping police officer talked about how green the vegetables are since no chemical fertilizer is used.
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