Facts & figures about China's major-country diplomacy: China's participation in UN peace-keeping missions

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The following are a set of numbers related to China's participation in the United Nations' peacekeeping missions:

* 2,500 -- Currently there are some 2,500 Chinese peacekeepers serving in 10 UN missions across the globe, making China the top contributor of peacekeepers to the UN.

* 2 -- China is also the second largest contributor to UN peacekeeping funds.

* 8,000 -- China pledged in 2015 to set up a standby peacekeeping force of 8,000 troops and the first such peacekeeping team of 300 troops was enlisted by the UN in July 2017.