Sailors take an oath on the deck of a missile destroyer of the Chinese naval fleet on an anti-piracy mission off Somalia on December 28, 2008, two days after departure from Sanya, south China's Hainan province. The naval fleet is expected to sail through the Singapore Strait and the Strait of Malacca on December 29, 2008 and arrive in the Gulf of Aden on January 6, 2009. [chinadaily.com.cn/ Wang Hui]