China's Naval Hospital Ship Peace Ark Visits Mexico

China's naval hospital ship Peace Ark has arrived in Acapulco on Mexico’s Pacific coast on Saturday, attracting lots of local residents on board for medical treatments.

The ship has 500 beds, 35 ICUs, 12 operating theatres, and the capacity to accommodate 60 major surgeries a day.

Aside from Mexico, the Peace Ark on Harmonious Mission-2015 will also visit three other locations around the Pacific Ocean -- Barbados, Grenada and Peru -- over the next few weeks. The deployment has already encompassed Australia, French Polynesia and the United States.

The medical crew of the mission comprises 118 medical staff from the Navy General Hospital, No.411 and No.413 Hospital of the PLA and the PLA Second Military Medical University, along with a ship-borne heliambulance.

This is the fifth Harmonious Mission task carried out by the hospital ship Peace Ark after it set sail from its home port Zhoushan in 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 respectively to perform the missions.