October 29, 2017

China's largest wind turbine installation vessel, the "Longyuan Zhenhua 3", could boost international cooperation in the South China Sea, experts said Sunday. 

The vessel, which went into trial service on Sunday in Nantong, East China's Jiangsu Province, has a lifting capacity of 2,000 tons, making it the largest of this kind in the world, currently, news site people.cn reported. 

"This is different from land operations, since offshore operations encounter tougher conditions, requiring higher standards for the equipment," Zhou Dadi, vice-director of the National Development and Reform Commission's China Energy Research Society, told the Global Times. 

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