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中国首艘自主建造极地科考破冰船在江南造船厂开工 - 2016年12月21日
Home-grown icebreaker will have its bow and stern in the thick of it
CONSTRUCTION started yesterday on China’s first self-built research vessel and icebreaker at Shanghai’s Jiangnan Shipyard.
It is being described as the world’s first icebreaker capable of breaking thick ice with both its bow and stern.
The vessel, numbered H2560, will set off for Arctic and Antarctic expeditions from 2019 in a fleet with the nation’s current main sole icebreaker Xuelong, which was renovated from a Ukrainian vessel.
