# New Chinese built icebreaker delivered

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**Created:** [July 14, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/new-chinese-built-icebreaker-delivered/52090 "2019-07-14T11:23:08Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 14, 2019, 11:23am UTC](https://forum.gcaptain.com/t/new-chinese-built-icebreaker-delivered/52090/1 "2019-07-14T11:23:08Z")

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The first domestic built Chinese icebreaker has been delivered:

> **[Icebreaker Xuelong 2 joins service on China national maritime day - Global Times](http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1157529.shtml)**
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> China's first domestically built polar research vessel and icebreaker, Xuelong 2, has been delivered to the Polar Research Institute of China in Shanghai on Thursday, which is the country's 15th China National Maritime Day, according to the Ministry...

Tupsis can probably tell all about it.