China News Agency, Beijing, July 12 (Reporter Ruan Yulin) China's 12th Arctic Scientific Expedition Team departed from Shanghai on the 12th on the "Snow Dragon 2" to carry out scientific expedition missions to the Arctic.
This expedition is the first Arctic scientific expedition organized by China during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period.
China’s 12th Arctic Scientific Expedition is organized by the Ministry of Natural Resources. It will focus on responding to climate change and protecting the Arctic’s ecological environment. Monitoring of plastics and ocean acidification, and obtaining Arctic ocean hydrology, meteorology, biology and other data.
At the same time, focusing on the frontier issues of international science, conducting scientific investigations in the mid-ocean ridge region, revealing the process of super-slow mid-ocean ridge rock and magma formation, and understanding the structural and geomorphological characteristics of mid-ocean ridge, so as to further improve China’s understanding of the Arctic natural environment. Cognition.
According to the arrangement, this Arctic expedition is expected to have a total voyage of about 15,000 nautical miles and will return to Shanghai in late September this year.
This is also China's first self-built polar scientific expedition icebreaker "Xuelong 2", and it is the second time to undertake the Arctic scientific expedition.
On July 15, 2020, "Xuelong 2" embarked on China's 11th Arctic Scientific Expedition from Shanghai and embarked on its first Arctic scientific expedition trip.
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