Peacekeepers greet welcoming crowds at an airport in Chengdu in southwest China’s Sichuan Province on September 4 after completing their mission in Lebanon.

The unit is part of the 335-member second detachment of the Chinese peacekeeping troops to Lebanon, composed of an engineering battalion and a medical team. Since January 2007, they have removed over 1,100 mines and other explosives in an area of 940,000 square meters, repaired 15,000 meters of roads, and attended to over 2,100 local patients.

All the 335 soldiers and officers have been awarded peacekeeping medals by the United Nations.

The first group of the third detachment of the Chinese peacekeepers left home for Lebanon on September 3.