People's Liberation Army of China donates humanitarian supplies in March 2020 to Cambodia

On March 21, 2020, the People's Liberation Army donated Covid materials to the Cambodian government amidst a joint-training exercise. The supplies included 15,000 sets of study, sport and medical materials.

A ceremony was held on Saturday, March 21st at a military training field in Cambodia's Kampot province in the presence of military personnel from both nations as well as local officials, medical workers and students for the donation.

Code-named "Golden Dragon-2020", the joint training kicked off on March 15 in Kampot with the closing ceremony scheduled for March 30.

Major General Pen Sokreth Vithyea, from the Royal Cambodian Armed Forces, told the Khmer Times that 2,746 soldiers, six helicopters, nine tanks, 12 armored personnel carriers and other heavy weapons from the Cambodian military participated in the exercise.

According to Chinese sources, More than 800 troops from the Chinese and Cambodian armed forces were involved in the training, which is the fourth of its kind between the two sides.