GUANGZHOU, March 17 (Xinhua) -- China's largest fishery administration vessel arrived in the Xisha Islands around noon, officials on the islands said on Tuesday.
The vessel, China Yuzheng 311, has anchored in Yongxing Island, a major one of the islands, and will patrol the South China Sea. It had made a week-long voyage from its home port in Guangzhou.
The vessel, China Yuzheng 311, anchored in a naval base in Sanya on the southern Hainan Province Thursday for supply and set sail for the islands which are about 180 nautical miles southeast of Hainan.
The ship is the largest of its kind with a maximum displacement of 4,450 tonnes and will be mainly used to patrol waters of China's exclusive economic zones including Nansha, Xisha and Zhongsha Islands. It was converted from a rescue vessel of Chinese navy.
Yang Jian, chief economist with the Ministry of Agriculture, told Xinhua that the ship is a new force in China's performance of fishery administration in the South China Sea.
Wu Zhuang, director of Administration of Fishery and Fishing Harbor Supervision for South China Sea, said the vessel will also take part in fishing vessels escort at southwest Zhongsha, and joint supervision and emergency rescue over the Beibu Bay.
April 9th, 2009 at 5:35 am
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August 21st, 2009 at 4:17 am
this show how evil china is as filipino citizen i will watch and defend my country's honor and national pride china must understand that its not fair to other countries to claim a whole sea just be because it has the name china in it jerks!!!!!