The China- Madagascar continental shelf joint laboratory was officially inaugurated

The SIO and the International Seabed Authority signed the bilateral cooperation agreement

The international training course on three-dimensional monitoring of marine and coastal ecological environment and disasters in small island countries was opened

A delegation from the National Survey Authority of Oman visited the SIO

The SIO jointly signed a memorandum of understanding on cooperation in marine and geosciences with Gadjah Mada University in Indonesia and the South China Sea Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences

The delegation of the SIO attended the Second United Nations Decade of Ocean Regional Conference and the SIO organized multiple side meetings

Scientists of the SIO obtained the only Chinese “One Thousand Reasons” taxonomy funding project approved by International Seabed Authority

The delegation of the SIO attended the 2024 United Nations “Ocean Decade” Conference, and the SIO organized multiple satellite activities

The interim acceptance of the “Acoustic Detection Key Technology for Submersible Intelligent Networking” project presided over by the SIO was completed.

The three national key R&D programs undertaken by the SIO were jointly launched.

China’s 85th Ocean Exploration Voyage implemented by the SIO set sail.

The National Key R&D Program Special Project “The Impact of the Convergence of Pacific - Eurasian - Indian Plates on the Habitability of the Earth” was launched.

The “Coastal oxygen and hypoxia in Asian waters (Coastal-Oxygen)” project, led by the SIO, was approved as the United Nations “Decade of Ocean” project.

The 5th Sino-Africa Forum on Marine Science and Technology was held in Egypt