A Chinese military instructor (R) teaches an Afghan trainee to lay the pipes used for clearing mines at a training base in Nanjing, in east China's Jiangsu province, October 14, 2009. Twenty trainees from Afghanistan and Iraq are participating in a mine-clearing course offered by the Nanjing-based PLA University of Science and Technology. The training started on September 15 and will continue for two months. Over the past ten years, China has provided humanitarian mine clearing assistance to 20 countries, training about 360 mine clearing technicians, Xinhua reported. [Xinhua]