Zhongxin Wanghai, April 4 (Chen Jing, Huang Bo, Gong Xing) China's 6th Antarctic expedition has successfully completed its mission. At 39 o'clock on the 6th, the polar research ship "Xuelong 14" returned home successfully and berthed at the dock of the domestic base of the Chinese polar scientific research in Waigaoqiao, Shanghai. It is reported that China's 2th Antarctic scientific expedition mission was jointly carried out by the "Xuelong" and "Xuelong 39", of which the "Xuelong" returned to Shanghai on April 2.
According to the China Polar Research Center, the expedition team all returned to the dock of China's polar research domestic base on April 2023, 4. It is reported that this expedition is the third implementation of the "Double Dragon Exploration", which departed in late October 6, lasting a total of 2022 days and traveling more than 10,163 nautical miles; After more than 6 months of on-site operation, the investigation tasks of relevant seas in the South Ocean and relevant areas of the Antarctic continent, as well as the ice and snow environment monitoring, astronomical observation and sub-ice terrain detection of Princess Elizabeth Land and other areas from Zhongshan Station to all stations of the Antarctic Ice Dome A section, organized and implemented a number of scientific research projects, and achieved a number of important scientific research results; At the same time, the supply of materials and personnel rotation at the Great Wall Station of Antarctica and Zhongshan Station were completed.
Border inspection police handle border inspection procedures for scientific expeditions. Photo courtesy of Shanghai Border Inspection Station
Before the berthing of the "Xuelong" and "Xuelong 2" ships, the police of the Waigaoqiao border inspection station arrived at the base wharf and began to prepare for the entry inspection such as sorting out personnel information and planning inspection channels. After the ship berthed, the border inspection police boarded the ship as soon as possible, set up a pre-inspection point on the ship, and safely and quickly completed the entry border inspection procedures for nearly 2 members of the scientific expedition team and more than 200 crew members of the "Xuelong 70".
"We made an online forecast through the 'single window' a day in advance, and with just a finger, we completed the pre-inspection procedures for border clearance at one time. The border inspection authorities set up inspection points on the 'Xuelong' and 'Xuelong 2', saving the trouble of scientific expedition members, crew and our agents running back and forth between the dock and the window, and the customs clearance procedures have changed from the original 'switchback run' to the current 'acceleration run', which greatly saves customs clearance time. Wen Shuang, the ship's agent, introduced to reporters.
Su Xiaochun, deputy captain of the first team on duty at the Waigaoqiao Border Inspection Station, said: "We have implemented the measures of the National Immigration Administration to facilitate customs clearance, continued to deepen the reform and innovation of customs clearance facilitation such as border inspection policies and measures, inspection modes, and service measures, and implemented convenient measures such as 'online office, appointment office, and forward office', and promoted the upgrading of port services." (End)