This Day, That Year
China Daily | Updated: 2018-06-27 07:25
Editor's Note: This year marks the 40th anniversary of China's reform and opening-up policy.
On June 27, 2012, the country's first manned deepsea submersible, Jiaolong, reached its deepest depth - 7,062 meters - in the Mariana Trench in the western Pacific Ocean.
Its mission highlighted the country's capacity to explore 99.8 percent of the ocean floor.
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