On the occasion of World Oceans Day, 85-year-old Wang Pinxian, one of China’s top marine geologists, told that over the past 10 years, their deep-sea research in the South China Sea is unprecedented.
China launched the deep-sea research mission in the South China Sea in 2011, with more than 700 researchers taking part.
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The deep-sea research is the current frontier of oceanographic research so the South China Sea is especially valuable as its average depth is 1,200 meters.