A team of Chinese engineers have arrived in west Sudan's Darfur region, joining the country's first group of peacekeepers.

This makes China the first non-African country to have deployed all its committed 315 peacekeepers in the region.

The Chinese contingent will join the United Nations-African Union peacekeeping mission or UNAMID. They will build infrastructural facilities there.

UNAMID's Joint Special Representative Rodolphe Adada welcomed the arrival of the Chinese troops and dismissed inaccurate media reports that the mission was evacuating.

"Some have said in some press, paper that UNAMID was withdrawing from Darfur, from Sudan. This is not the truth as you can see. You can see that at the contrary, we are building up the strength of the mission."

At full deployment, UNAMID is expected to have some 26,000 troops and police officers, making it the world's largest peacekeeping operation.