Source record CMC Political Work Department · 2026-09-01

Nearly 400,000 Nautical Miles! Looking Back on 16 Years of Peaceful Voyages of "Harmonious Mission"

近40万海里！回望“和谐使命”16年的和平航程

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16年前，海军“和平方舟”号医院船踏浪出征，拉开“和谐使命”系列任务帷幕。如今，海军“丝路方舟”号医院船、“吉祥方舟”号医院船续写“和谐”航程，三艘国产万吨医院船执行12次“和谐使命”任务，总航程近40万海里。回望16年，航迹是见证，生命是答卷。“大白船”的故事还在继续。中国军队高举合作共赢旗帜，践行共同、综合、合作、可持续的安全观，同各国海军不断深化交流交往，积极参与国际海上安全合作，主动提供海上公共安全产品，为协力保障海洋事业发展、促进共同繁荣，推动构建人类命运共同体作出重要贡献。（联合制作：新华社解放军分社海政宣传文化中心 | 作者：李杰叶雪怡刘少伟廖俊杰 | 编辑：段振军）

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Three PLAN hospital ships — Peace Ark, Silk Road Ark, and Auspicious Ark — have collectively logged nearly 400,000 nautical miles across 12 'Harmonious Mission' (和谐使命) humanitarian deployment cycles over 16 years, a milestone this Xinhua/Naval Political Work Department joint retrospective marks as the program enters its next phase with two newer vessels. The piece is institutional commemorative content; its value is as a record of how the Naval Political Work Department frames the Harmonious Mission program — invoking the 'four commons' security concept and 'community with a shared future' — for domestic and international audiences, not as evidence of a changed operational posture or expanded mission scope.

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Source text. CMC Political Work Department. "近40万海里！回望“和谐使命”16年的和平航程." PLA Daily (解放军报), 2026-09-01. http://www.81.cn/yw_208727/16482802.html.

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