On November 30, the Sanya Phoenix Island Coral Cultivation Field Experimental Base of Hainan Institute of Tropical Oceanography welcomed a group of distinguished guests. This is organized by the Propaganda Department of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Propaganda Department of the Sanya Municipal Party Committee, and eight news units including Hainan Daily, Hainan Radio and Television, Sansha Satellite TV, Nanguo Metropolis Daily, Hainan Special Zone Daily, Nanhai Net, Sanya Daily, and Sanya Radio and Television participated. A joint large-scale interview and publicity campaign with the theme of protecting the marine ecological environment. The news unit interviewed Chen Hong, the director of our institute, and visited the coral cultivation site.
The breeze is refreshing, the water is clear and the blue sky is clear, and the small seedlings of coral are faintly visible in the clear water. This is the fruitful result of the cultivation plan of our institute this year. With the Phoenix Island Experimental Base as a platform, we have artificially cultivated about 150,000 corals through unremitting efforts. These corals are mainly dominated by staghorn corals.
The cultivation of coral seedlings has always been an important subject of our institute. Over the years, our institute has been carrying out the work of coral cultivation based on the principles of science and technology as the root, demand-oriented, realistic and innovative, and focusing on the future. Adopt advanced cultivation technology to cultivate tens of thousands of corals successively.
In the future, we will firmly continue to take the road of cultivating coral through science and technology. Efforts to explore and practice the Million Coral Project, Coral Seed Bank and Species Improvement, South China Sea Ecological Restoration and Artificial Fishing Reef, Marine Intelligent Equipment and Active Substance Research and Development, etc., in order to rebuild damaged corals and enrich marine life, Make unremitting efforts to protect the marine ecological environment.