The unit was founded in 2002 as the PLAN Special Operations Battalion.[13][14]
In December 26 2008, 70 members of the brigade deployed to the Gulf of Aden where they carried out operations with the PLAN’s firstantipiracy task force.[15] In 2015, Jiaolong commandos participated in theevacuation of 571 Chinese citizens and over 200 other foreign nationals from Yemen after a Saudi-led coalition began airstrikes against the Houthi rebel group (Yemen Civil War).[16]
In April 2017 10 members of the brigade, in coordination with the Indian navy, helped rescue 19 Syrian crewmembers from a hijacked Tuvalu cargo ship in the Indian Ocean.[17]
On 5 May 2017, 3 pirates were captured by the unit and handed over to theSomali Police Force.[18]
The 2018 filmOperation Red Sea is loosely based on the unit's involvement in the evacuation of Chinese and foreign nationals in theYemeni Civil War and also depicts the unit.[22]
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^Yuwen, Huang (October 2019)."中共軍改後海軍陸戰隊 的建構與發展"(PDF).Naval Bimonthly Journal (in Chinese).53 (5). Ministry of National Defense of the Republic of China. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 5 November 2020. Retrieved2 February 2025.
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