中國(guó)使領(lǐng)館霸氣護(hù)民

On the east side of the Mediterranean Sea, massive wild fires rage across a coastal city. The *blaze causes around 60,000 residents to flee and leaves thousands of firefighters battling the *rampant flames.

地中海東岸，一場(chǎng)野火席卷了一座海濱城市。大火導(dǎo)致約6萬(wàn)名民眾流離失所，數(shù)以千計(jì)的消防員在肆虐的火場(chǎng)中奮力撲救。

This isn’t a scene from an apocalyptic Hollywood movie. It was a devastating fire that spread across Israel’s third-largest city, Haifa two weeks ago.

這并不是好萊塢災(zāi)難片中的場(chǎng)景。兩周前，一場(chǎng)毀滅性的大火席卷了以色列第三大城市海法。

International residents were left *scrambling, trying to figure how to get out of the fire-stricken city by contacting overseas relatives. The Chinese embassy in Israel *sprung into action, successfully *evacuating and resettling 159 Chinese students from the University of Haifa.

僑民們則陷入了混亂之中，他們通過(guò)嘗試聯(lián)系身在海外的親朋好友，希望逃離這座被大火吞噬的城市。中國(guó)駐以色列大使館迅速展開行動(dòng)，將海法大學(xué)的159名中國(guó)學(xué)生成功疏散，并重新安置到安全的地方。

Those evacuees were later being offered food, drinks and accommodation in a hotel. Jia Xinglong, one of the rescued students, later made a post on social media. “I am *indebted to my motherland. I feel grateful as a Chinese,” he said.

這些被疏散的學(xué)生不久后得到了食物和水，并被安置到酒店住宿。得到救援的學(xué)生賈興龍隨后在社交媒體上發(fā)帖，“感恩祖國(guó)，感恩自己作為一個(gè)中國(guó)人，”他說(shuō)道。

Rewind to earlier last month when a magnitude-7.5 earthquake hit Christchurch, New Zealand. The Chinese consulate rented helicopters and evacuated 126 Chinese tourists from the disaster areas.

而上個(gè)月早些時(shí)候，新西蘭克賴斯特徹奇發(fā)生7.5級(jí)地震，中國(guó)領(lǐng)事館租用了直升機(jī)，從地震災(zāi)區(qū)疏散了126名中國(guó)游客。

“The Chinese government is the only foreign government that has organized evacuation, which has been quite a relief for us,” Li Wei, one of the earthquake’s last evacuees, told the Xinhua News Agency.

李薇是地震最后一批被救出的游客之一，她在接受新華社采訪時(shí)表示，“中國(guó)政府是唯一組織安全轉(zhuǎn)移公民的外國(guó)政府。”

The efficient consular protection offered by the government gained *accolades from overseas Chinese, and stirred up an online *sensation domestically praising the domineering power of the Chinese passport.

中國(guó)政府所提供的高效的領(lǐng)事保護(hù)獲得了海外同胞的一致贊譽(yù)，并在國(guó)內(nèi)互聯(lián)網(wǎng)上引起轟動(dòng)，大家紛紛為中國(guó)護(hù)照的霸氣點(diǎn)贊。

Those are two examples of how the Chinese government manages to protect its nationals with effective consular services.

再舉兩個(gè)中國(guó)政府用高效的領(lǐng)事服務(wù)保護(hù)中國(guó)公民的實(shí)例。

This July, more than 200 Chinese nationals were successfully evacuated from the conflict-hit South Sudan. Last year, when the security situation worsened in Yemen, China redirected its warships on anti-piracy *escort missions in the Gulf of Aden to evacuate 613 Chinese citizens from the war-torn Middle Eastern country.

今年7月，200多名中國(guó)公民成功從爆發(fā)戰(zhàn)亂的南蘇丹撤離。在去年也門安全局勢(shì)不斷惡化的情況下，中國(guó)令正在亞丁灣執(zhí)行反海盜護(hù)航任務(wù)的軍艦調(diào)轉(zhuǎn)方向，前往這個(gè)飽受戰(zhàn)火摧殘的中東國(guó)家?guī)椭?13名中國(guó)公民撤離。

China has committed to, “weave a full-time ‘safety net’ that spans the globe to make sure our *compatriots receive timely consular protection and service from the motherland wherever they are,” said Foreign Minister Wang Yi in a statement.

外交部部長(zhǎng)王毅在一份聲明中指出，中國(guó)已經(jīng)承諾“編織一張覆蓋全球的全天候‘安全網(wǎng)’，確保我們的同胞無(wú)論在哪，都能夠及時(shí)獲得來(lái)自祖國(guó)的領(lǐng)事保護(hù)和服務(wù)。”

Continuous improvement

持續(xù)不斷的進(jìn)步

Protecting its nationals is not the only factor in China’s consular service. “The increasing complexity of security overseas has, to some extent, contributed to the boom in China’s consular assistance service,” Li Wei told China Daily. Li is an anti-terrorism studies researcher at the China Institute of Contemporary International Relations.

保護(hù)中國(guó)公民并非中國(guó)領(lǐng)事服務(wù)的唯一要素。李偉是一名中國(guó)現(xiàn)代國(guó)際關(guān)系研究院反恐研究學(xué)者。他在接受《中國(guó)日?qǐng)?bào)》采訪時(shí)表示，“在某種程度上，海外安全形勢(shì)的日益復(fù)雜，促進(jìn)了中國(guó)領(lǐng)事援助服務(wù)的快速發(fā)展。”

This year, the foreign ministry is expected to launch a system of “emergency” consular *liaison volunteers to keep refining China’s consular services. The program aims to help Chinese citizens in the first instance if they encounter difficulties abroad.

外交部預(yù)計(jì)于今年建立起“緊急情況”領(lǐng)保聯(lián)絡(luò)員機(jī)制，以不斷改進(jìn)中國(guó)的領(lǐng)事服務(wù)。這一機(jī)制旨在當(dāng)中國(guó)公民海外遇到困難時(shí)，能夠第一時(shí)間為他們提供幫助。

The Chinese government has made continuous headlines and has the responsibility of assisting its citizens when they are in danger or facing problems. But consular protection is by no means unlimited, and will never go beyond the framework of law.

中國(guó)政府有責(zé)任在其公民遇險(xiǎn)或遇到困難時(shí)從旁協(xié)助，也因此頻上頭條。但領(lǐng)事保護(hù)絕非毫無(wú)限制，也從不會(huì)超出法律的框架。

“Our government, embassies and consulates, cannot work beyond the law,” Yin Fei, an inspector with the Beijing Government’s Foreign Affairs Office, told China Radio International. “We can help you, but cannot *exempt you from legal punishment or compensation.”

“我們的政府、使館以及領(lǐng)事館都不能越過(guò)法律的約束，”北京市人民政府外事辦公室巡視員殷飛在接受中國(guó)國(guó)際廣播電臺(tái)采訪時(shí)表示。“我們可以幫助你，但卻不會(huì)讓你免于法律的懲處。”