On October 8, 2024, the "Polar Intelligent Detection Technology and Application Forum" was successfully held in Guangzhou, bringing together more than 50 leading experts and scholars.
"I am honored to be a member of the first batch of the scientific expedition team of the Zhong Shan Da Xue Ji Di and I hope it would soon take me to the Arctic," Zhao Xi, an associate professor at the Sun Yat-sen University's School of Geospatial Engineering and Science, wrote on February 3 inside the ship's meeting room during its first sea trials.
Chinese university's first polar icebreaker owned by Sun Yat-sen University - the third of its type in China after Xuelong and Xuelong-2, successfully conducted a sea trial in the ice-covered area in the Liaodong Bay in the Bohai Sea recently and verified the ship's abilities to complete low-temperature navigation, icebreaking, scientific research equipment on the ship, and research support in ice-covered areas.
