The marine comprehensive scientific research vessel represents a new generation of comprehensive research vessels in China, featuring the largest domestically designed displacement and the highest degree of technological innovation integration. With global navigation capabilities in unrestricted navigation areas (including adjacent ice zones), it aims to become an internationally advanced, globally accessible, and multifaceted mobile marine research platform and talent cultivation base across multiple disciplines, fields, and functions, serving the country’s major development needs.

As of May 2024, it has completed 17 voyage missions (segments) in the South China Sea and the Pacific Ocean.