China’s first deep-ocean drilling vessel commissioned
By Chang Qin, Liu Juanxi, People’s Daily The Meng Xiang, or “Dream”, China’s first domestically designed and built deep-ocean drilling vessel, was officially commissioned in Guangzhou, south China’s Guangdong province on Nov. 17. It marked a significant step forward for China in deep-sea exploration, detection and mining. Zhou Chang, head of the command of the…