Foreign Ministry Spokesman Liu Jianchao briefed the press on February 4:

At present, Ambassador Wang Yingwu is leading the remaining staff of the Chinese Embassy in Chad to overcome difficulties in organizing and assisting an early evacuation of those overseas Chinese who are to leave Ndjamena. All the overseas Chinese remaining in Ndjamena are safe now. The Embassies in Cameron and other countries are engaged actively in relocating the evacuated overseas Chinese citizens under the direction of the Foreign Ministry.