Ministry of Natural Resources: Accelerate the self-reliance and self-improvement of marine technology, promote new and greater breakthroughs in deep-sea entry, deep-sea exploration, and deep-sea development.

The Ministry of Natural Resources announced on its official website today that it recently held a symposium to thoroughly study and implement the spirit of General Secretary Xi Jinping's congratulatory message on the commissioning of the "Dream" ocean drilling ship. The meeting emphasized the need to make new and greater breakthroughs in deep-sea entry, exploration, and development. It is important to leverage the advantages of a new type of national system, strengthen original innovation and key core technology research, enhance the level of joint construction, sharing, and application of major scientific and technological equipment; scientifically plan the "14th Five-Year Plan" and key tasks, continue to strengthen the investigation of marine energy resources, accelerate the development of high-level marine science and technology for self-reliance, expand and deepen high-level marine opening, and forge a team of new era ocean workers who are politically strong, professionally excellent, have a good work ethic, and are determined to win.