After an oath-taking rally on Feb.28, the officers and men of the first echelon of the eighth batch of Chinese peacekeepers to the Democratic Republic of Congo left for the country by chartered plane at the airport of Urumqi, Xinjiang, on the early morning of Feb.29.

　　By Zhang Yongjin

　　(Feb 29, 2008  PLA Daily)                                                    Editor: Fan Aifeng