The PLA at Home and Abroad - Strategic Studies Institute - U.S. Army

hensive Training Base, Guilin. Sixty-one PLA personnel
from a Chemical Defense Regiment and the Center
for Diseases Control and Prevention from the Guangzhou
MR worked with a like number from the Singapore
Armed Forces (SAF) 2nd People’s Defense Force,
and the SAF Chemical, Biological, Radiological, and
Explosives Defense Group focused on “the prevention
and emergency handling of nuclear, chemical and biological
terror attacks.” 62 After holding seminars, the
PLA and SAF forces formed mixed teams to conduct
hands-on training.
Rounding out activities, from June 26 to July 4, Chinese
and Mongolian forces conducted “Peacekeeping
Mission-2009,” the “first joint peacekeeping exercise
China has held with another country, as well as the
first joint military training between China and Mongolia.”
The exercise included lectures, joint training,
and comprehensive simulation drills, such as “transport
and defensive missions against the backdrop of a
simulated United Nations peacekeeping mission.” In
that exercise, the participants formed a peacekeeping
company. A total of 91 personnel from both countries
participated, with China providing 46 troops. 63 The
Chinese contingent likely included personnel from
the Engineer Brigade stationed in Beijing that has sent
forces to several UN missions. The exercise was probably
conducted at the newly opened PLA “Peacekeeping
Training Center” in Huairou, northeast of Beijing. 64
The third in the “Peace Mission” series of exercises
was another bilateral Sino-Russian event (though other
four SCO member states sent observers). A 1-day
“strategic consultation” phase held in Khabarovsk
preceded the live troop phase from July 24-26, 2009,
at the Taonan Combined Arms Training Center in
Jilin. “Peace Mission-2009” was the smallest exercise
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