CRIMM

The NSFC key project on deep-sea mining system response mechanisms held its annual seminar at Xiangtan University on December 23.

Second Institute of Oceanography director Li Jiabiao visited CRIMM on November 4 to deepen seabed exploration cooperation.

State Oceanic Administration vice administrator Sun Shuxian visited CRIMM on November 26 to review its deep-sea mining facilities.

COMRA experts re-reviewed and passed the implementation plan for CRIMM's polymetallic nodule collector 500-meter sea trial project.

China Minmetals held a seminar at CRIMM on September 14, 2016 on international seabed exploration technology and contract-area management.

Professor Jerzy Sobota of Wroclaw University visited CRIMM on August 25 for a technical exchange on IOM nodule lifting technology.

China's first deep-sea ore-lifting system sea trial set sail aboard the Changhe Haiyang from Wenling, Zhejiang on June 6.

The 8,000-tonne trial ship Changhe Haiyang was launched in Taizhou, Zhejiang for China's first 500-meter ore-lifting test.

CRIMM's deep-sea ore-lifting pump and pipe system laboratory test passed third-party verification with a score of 98.97 on March 27.

Four young marine scientists from Georgia, Mexico, Bangladesh and Cuba toured CRIMM's deep-sea laboratories on August 27.