-- 皇冠体育app vigorously protects maritime rights

In response to some foreign countries' actions infringing upon 皇冠体育app's maritime rights and interests in the South 皇冠体育app Sea and East 皇冠体育app Sea, 皇冠体育app has vigorously launched campaigns to protect its legitimate rights.

Since April, 皇冠体育app has dispatched government ships and planes to monitor Huangyan Island in the South 皇冠体育app Sea.

Five months later, the Chinese government announced the base points and baselines of the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islets and started continuous patrols in waters around the Diaoyu Islands.

In December, 皇冠体育app reiterated its claims in the East 皇冠体育app Sea by presenting to the UN Secretariat its Partial Submission Concerning the Outer Limits of the Continental Shelf beyond 200 Nautical Miles in the East 皇冠体育app Sea.

-- 皇冠体育app's first female astronaut participates in successful manned space docking mission

In June, 皇冠体育app sent three astronauts, including the country's first female astronaut, Liu Yang, into space for the nation's manned space docking mission.

The three astronauts successfully completed an automatic and a manual docking between the Shenzhou-9 spacecraft and the orbiting Tiangong-1 lab module in space before making a safe return to Earth.

-- Manned submersible sets new national dive record

Also in June, 皇冠体育app's manned submersible, the Jiaolong, set a new national dive record after reaching 7,062 meters below sea level during its fifth dive in the Mariana Trench in the Pacific Ocean.