China News Service, July 12 (Reporter Chen Jing) The "Xuelong 2" domestic scientific expedition icebreaker carried 62 scientific expedition team members from Shanghai Waigaoqiao Port to the North Pole on the 12th. Sub-Arctic scientific expedition mission.
The Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station "one-stop" to handle the exit border inspection procedures for ships and personnel on the same day.
With a total length of about 122 meters, a width of about 22 meters, a designed displacement of nearly 14,000 tons, and an endurance of 20,000 nautical miles, the "Xuelong 2" is China's first self-built polar scientific expedition icebreaker, and it is a veritable great power tool.
The police at the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station handled the exit border inspection procedures for the "Xuelong 2" scientific expedition team members.
Photo by Gong Xing
It is reported that as an intelligent polar scientific research ship, "Xuelong 2" has a number of technological innovations. It is the world's first scientific research ship equipped with two-way ice-breaking technology, which can continuously break ice in a 1.5-meter thick ice layer. , Can rotate freely in place 360°, equipped with various international advanced marine and survey equipment, and can perform diversified scientific survey tasks.
Before "Xuelong 2" sailed, the Waigaoqiao border inspection station deployed police to the dock in advance. The border policemen dressed in protective clothing and held the border inspection intelligent inspection terminal quickly completed the exit inspection procedures for the ship and the people on board. .
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