The central military committees, director of general political department Li Jinai attend the ceremony and speak, the central military committees, navy Commander Wu win participates together. Li Jinai said in the speech that the escort motion is the Chinese Navy goes to the overseas maintenance national strategy benefit, to organize the naval operation strength for the first time to go to the overseas fulfillment international humanitarian duty for the first time, for the first time in the distant seas protection important traffic line security, in the people’s navy and the People’s Liberation Army construct in the history, has significantly strategic, the symbolic significance.
Has set sail from last December 26 since Sanya, the first batch escort formation navigates continuously in 124 days and nights more than 33,000 nautical miles, is successively 41 batch of 166 ships implementations follows the escort, is 46 ships provides the region escort, the success has rescued three to be attacked the foreign ships, the security, smoothly, has completed the escort mission completely. By Shenzhen the guided-missile destroyer, Mt. Huangshan the guided missile escort ship and the first batch escort formation leaves behind the Weishan lake the synthesis supplies ship, as well as two ship-based helicopters and the partial special operations forces members compose the second batch of escort formation, on April 16 the zero hour started in the Beijing standard time to replace the escort mission officially.