The Chinese Navy's "Silk Road Ark" hospital ship set sail from a military port in Sanya, Hainan on the 16th to carry out the "Healthy Delivery to the Sea" mission to various islands and reefs in the South China Sea. This is the second time since the "Silk Road Ark" hospital ship entered service in 2024 that it has carried out the "Healthy Delivery to the Sea" mission. The "Healthy Delivery to the Sea" mission this time focuses on the medical security needs of grassroots officers and soldiers on islands, such as training injury prevention and mental health maintenance, with high-quality medical resources from the navy as the main force for executing the mission, and coordinating the participation of medical backbone experts from the whole army. The hospital ship adopts the mode of "group training and dock services during the voyage" to provide medical services for the officers, soldiers, and residents of the islands and reefs in the South China Sea. It will focus on five types of special medical services, including "physical examination entering the battle position, oral discharge from the ship, strengthening the foundation of traditional Chinese medicine, psychological frontline, and eugenics benefiting all households". During the voyage, it will organize medical service teams to carry out maritime adaptability training and batch assessment of the ability to treat and treat patients. At the same time, the Navy Art Light Cavalry Team and political work backbone of the Southern Theater Command also accompanied the ship to the islands and reefs to carry out activities such as "cultural grassroots" and "popularizing law for officers and soldiers". The "Silk Road Ark" is the second 10000 ton ocean going hospital ship independently designed and built by China. It is equipped with functional zones such as outpatient, epidemic prevention, surgery, rescue, and ward, as well as 15 types of clinical departments. The medical facilities and equipment are well-equipped, mainly responsible for medical rescue and evacuation of the wounded at sea, international humanitarian medical services, emergency medical rescue for major disasters, and military medical exchanges and cooperation with foreign countries. (New Society)