The artists' rendering of a national deep-sea base to be constructed in Qingdao, a coastal city of Shandong province. The base is designed to be a state-level oceanic technical support center. The construction is expected to begin later this year or in early 2013. The physical construction of the base will cost 495 million yuan (US$77.8 million) and cover 26 hectares of land and 62.7 hectares of sea in the coastal city.
