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Construction of China's first deep-sea fish farming facility — Shenlan 1 — was completed on Friday in Qingdao, Shandong province, and will be put into operation later this month for salmon cultivation, said Wuchang Shipbuilding Industry Co.
Chinese research vessel Kexue returned to its home port of Qingdao, Shandong province.
Sea rice is a new type of rice with saline-alkaline tolerance that was developed through crossbreeding and ordinary breeding technologies by Chinese plant-breeding experts.
Chinese scientists have completed the world's first whole genome sequencing of the Peruvian scallop, an economically important bivalve in Chile, Peru and China.
Experts said this marks a major step forward in the development of resistant rice strains in China.
China's unmanned submersible "Hailong III" dived 4,266 meters below the sea surface in the western Pacific Ocean late Wednesday while conducting a 4,500-meter level deep water test.
A national marine fisheries germplasm resources bank will be built in Qingdao, a coastal city in East China's Shandong province.
The vessel left the eastern city of Qingdao on March 10 on an expedition to the seamounts. With 80 people on board, the vessel is expected to return in late April.
