This period of history is "Yemen evacuated overseas Chinese"! 20 18, director Lin Chaoxian became famous in China with Operation Red Sea.
As the background story of the Red Sea operation, what are the real stories of Yemen's evacuation of overseas Chinese in history?
Are there really special forces involved in the evacuation of overseas Chinese? Are overseas Chinese really being held hostage? Can the naval gun really fire?
Let's review the history together and understand the stormy years of Yemen's evacuation of overseas Chinese.
20 15 On March 29th, a beautiful figure cut through the Gulf of Aden. Linyi Ship is a missile frigate belonging to China Navy. This time, the task of Linyi Ship's voyage is to send overseas Chinese living in Yemen back to China!
In the afternoon 13: 46, Linyi ship, which set off overnight, broke down at the port of the Gulf of Aden. Under the escort of China Navy, 122 overseas Chinese and 2 foreign experts successfully boarded the ship.
It sounds as if this evacuation operation is not dangerous, and everything is so dull. However, what is hidden behind this blandness is a thrilling evacuation, and it is the strength and responsibility from China!
To evacuate, the first thing to ensure is to gather China citizens safely, but this step alone is very difficult.
At that time, Yemen was in the midst of war and artillery fire. The armed group "Houthi Armed Forces" who resisted the government occupied the Yemeni capital and even ousted the Yemeni president.
However, the Houthi armed group did not stop, and successive riots made Saudi Arabia, which borders Yemen, join the war against the Houthi armed group.
There are Saudi air strikes in the sky and bullets from Houthi armed groups on the ground. There is a rare opportunity for a ceasefire. All kinds of thugs poured into the streets and used all kinds of terrorist acts to vent their fear and pressure on the war.
Every resident is in danger. Even if the doors and windows are locked, you can hear the roar of explosives outside the window and the roar of gunshots outside the house.
From time to time, a stream will break the glass, or the house will be destroyed to be uninhabitable under the dropped bomb.
According to Tian Qi, China's ambassador to Yemen, at the worst of the war and conflict, you can even see two people shooting at each other with rifles in the yard more than ten meters away.
The shells that fall in the embassy yard every day are like fallen leaves, and they can even gather into a pile when they are cleaned every day. The air raid from the sky made the whole ground tremble.
This is near the embassy. Even embassies have been repeatedly affected by conflicts, and China citizens living in various parts of Yemen need no more words to describe them.
You know, in Yemen, there are more than 600 people working and doing business in Yemen, or oil workers and embassy employees.
They are distributed in various regions of Yemen. To gather all overseas Chinese together, we should not only know the location of all China people accurately, but also go through the bullets to accomplish this arduous task.
Governments have closed their consulates one after another, and countries that even have their own consulates will naturally not take care of their nationals in Yemen.
Let their citizens survive on their own with the phrase "find their own means of transportation to evacuate" The American embassy even abandoned its citizens with the phrase "evacuation of overseas Chinese may cause inconvenience".
Under such circumstances, on March 26th, the China government immediately gave up its investment of more than one billion yuan in Yemen, and ordered the Ministry of Foreign Affairs to speed up the repatriation of Yemeni nationals to the motherland.
The China Navy, which received orders late that night, immediately ordered the Linyi, Weifang and Weishan Lake ships, which were carrying out daily escort missions in the waters near the Gulf of Aden, to suspend their escort missions and move to the Gulf of Aden to prepare for receiving overseas Chinese.
Due to urgency and difficulties, the situation of Yemeni expatriates living in different regions is different.
The Embassy of China immediately braved the flames of war and met with Yemeni military and interior officials, asking them to send troops to escort China expatriates scattered in more than a dozen areas.
So why is Yemen so chaotic?
When it comes to Yemen, we must first understand its situation and location. As an effect of the southwestern tip of Arabian Peninsula, Yemen is adjacent to Saudi Arabia, the Red Sea, the Gulf of Aden and the Arabian Sea, and is one of the least developed cities in the world.
Its economy mainly comes from the export of oil, but its popularity in the world is not as good as that of Saudi Arabia. Even water resources and food are not self-sufficient, and more than half of it needs to be made up by imports.
In modern history, Yemen was affected by war for many years, and it was not until1May 22, 990 that Yemen was unified and declared.
Because of the unstable political power, the Republic of Yemen has been in civil war all the year round since its establishment, and the rise of Houthi armed groups has brought a near-fatal blow to this country.
However, faced with the application of the Embassy of China, the Yemeni government still did not refuse. Although there was a serious shortage of manpower because of the war, armored motorcades and pickup trucks were sent along.
Help overseas Chinese stranded in Yemen to move to Aden Port and Hodda Port to wait for the evacuation of subsequent ships.
20 15 On the morning of March 29th, 122 overseas Chinese and two foreign experts came to Aden Port for the first time.
Although it is still far away from 600 overseas Chinese, the situation in Yemen is changing rapidly, so it is impossible to "wait for the boat" and "wait for the boat", and only the first batch of overseas Chinese can be evacuated.
Loaded with a 76-mm main gun, two 30-mm Linyi ships and seven anti-aircraft guns aimed their guns at the coast.
These two 730-type near-defense guns are very powerful. They used to be the most lethal shipborne near-defense guns in the world. Regardless of trajectory or fire control, it completely crushed Russian AK630 and American dense near-defense guns.
The 730 can shoot 70 shells in one second, and it only takes one shot to destroy all enemies. It can even intercept anti-ship missiles below Mach 2, and its offensive and defensive performance is impeccable.
The 50 naval special warfare team members on the Linyi, the "Jiaolong" special warfare team, are responsible for closely guarding the surrounding area.
As a warning, there is also a sign "Stay away from idle people" next to the special warfare players holding Type 95 automatic rifles and pushing Type 92 pistols.
A total of 124 people, plus many steps such as identity screening and baggage security inspection, only took more than half an hour under the command of Linyi Ship, and the execution and speed shocked countless overseas Chinese present.
One day later, Weifang ship arrived at Yemen port. This time, it took 8 1 minute for 455 people to board the ship. Under the deterrent of weapons and firepower, the Houthi armed group did not dare to attack the ship at all.
On April 1 day, all 600 China people in Yemen were evacuated, and Mifune continued to participate in the escort mission in the Gulf of Aden without any rest.
In the next few days, at the request of friendly countries, we were very happy to successfully help more than 270 citizens of Germany, Poland, Pakistan and other countries evacuate from Yemen and return to their own countries by plane.
It is worth mentioning that these countries do not include the United States, which advises its citizens to stay in Yemen.
Compared with the United States, China has undoubtedly gained more responsibility as a big country.
These countries that have been helped by China, such as Ireland and Britain, all praised China in their own publications, and the friendship between China and Pakistan was further enhanced by the evacuation of overseas Chinese.
No matter when and where, China has never forgotten its overseas nationals.
The first is the difficulty of action, not only to ensure the safety of docking and sailing, but also to allocate and plan boarding personnel.
Take Weifang ship as an example. This evacuation operation, an evacuation of 455 people!
For a frigate, 455 people is definitely not a small number, more than three times the normal number of Weifang ships! This is not the original crew on the Weifang ship.
What's more, among these 455 people, every boarding person is different in age and their national customs are different.
From babies to the elderly, there are 6 foreign friends and more than 60 Muslim compatriots. Distribution is a big problem because of the large number of people and miscellaneous personnel.
In order to ensure that all overseas Chinese and friends on board have a rest and eat, the crew vacated their lounge and converted it into a room suitable for boarding personnel to rest. And themselves, in the aisle of the engine room, rest on the floor.
In order to meet the customs of different nationalities, chefs also cook different meals. In less than a day, it consumed more than 750 kilograms of grain!
Not a traditional one-pot meal. In order to make all overseas Chinese feel at home, the cooking class never stops for 14 hours a day!
The dining hall with nine batches of meal time is like a flowing water mat, which continuously provides food for the people boarding the ship, while the navy soldiers only have two simple dishes and one soup.
This is what the cook calls "one family doesn't talk about two families"! Illness is treated by military doctors in time, and seasickness is helped by food.
The one-day voyage made many overseas Chinese who returned home reluctant to leave Weifang Ship, and the deeds of Weifang Ship also received a lot of praise and recognition.
In the task of evacuating overseas Chinese, the strength of China's navy was not only widely praised by the international community, but also admired by the Saudi army and Houthi armed groups.
Under the deterrent of 730 anti-aircraft guns, Houthi armed groups have always exercised restraint over China's navy. They have no doubt that if their actions cause harm to Yemeni nationals, they will be hit.
On April 8th, 2005, The New York Times wrote an article about the evacuation of overseas Chinese, with the comment that "the Yemeni rescue mission proved to be of great benefit to the image of China's army".
This action has evacuated more than 600 Yemeni citizens and more than 200 overseas citizens from different countries. This is the first time that New China has chosen to send warships to evacuate overseas Chinese.
Before Yemen evacuated overseas Chinese, China mostly chose chartered flight or entrusted other countries to help evacuate overseas Chinese.
For example, when Solomon Islands evacuated overseas Chinese in 2000, it chose to charter the COSCO "Yangjiang" freighter, and with the assistance of Australian government warships, it met 1 15 Chinese.
Finally, after successfully transporting overseas Chinese to Mobile Port, they returned home safely by special plane sent by the China government.
Another example is the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Liberia in 2003. At that time, China did not establish diplomatic relations with Liberia. When the local communication was destroyed, the French warship Storm could only be entrusted to successfully evacuate overseas Chinese.
However, China's voluntary evacuation of overseas Chinese is quite different from the behavior of the US Embassy in Yemen in asking citizens to flee or not to leave.
If the time is further extended, the earliest evacuation of overseas Chinese in China can even be traced back to the evacuation of overseas Chinese in Vladivostok in 19 18.
According to "Evacuation of Overseas Chinese 19 18: The Great Retreat of Beiyang Government's Armed Protection of Overseas Chinese", after the First World War, there were a large number of overseas Chinese in China.
Vladivostok, which is near the northeast, is the largest city in the Russian Far East, and a large number of Russians studying in China choose to settle in Vladivostok.
19 17 Russian October revolution, the war spread to Vladivostok. Protect the overseas Chinese in Vladivostok. At that time, the government sent a warship "Hai Rong" to participate in the evacuation of overseas Chinese.
The evacuation of overseas Chinese ended in perfection. The Hairong sank to resist the menacing Japanese army in the Jiangyin Defence War of 1937, and the wreckage was not salvaged until April of 1959.
It can be seen that at any time, China takes the life of China citizens as its primary task. With the improvement of China's national strength, China's evacuation of overseas Chinese has become more and more "great country demeanor"!
So no matter where you are, as long as you are a citizen of the Principality, the motherland will stand by you forever. When you encounter difficulties overseas, you can get help from your motherland by coming to the local embassy in China.
This is the gold content of China citizenship, and it is also an identity that we should be proud of all our lives. When people in other countries are at war and suffering from war, it is China that makes us live and work in peace and contentment.
When other places are suffering from diseases and anxiety due to high medical expenses, it is China's medical insurance that bears a lot of medical expenses for us.
Since the outbreak of the COVID-19 epidemic, when other countries have become accustomed to hundreds of thousands of cases of COVID-19 every day, it is our country that attaches great importance to the discovery of a case, so that we don't have to panic because of the COVID-19 epidemic.
This is what the motherland has done! At home and abroad, China always tries its best to benefit its citizens and protect their safety.