June 3, at the construction site of the National South China Sea Museum located at Tanmen Central Fishing Port in Qionghai City.

    The National South China Sea Museum, whose foundation stone was laid in November last year, is a key construction project of the provincial government for 2015. As of now, all six tower cranes used for construction have been fully installed, the entire pile foundation work has been completed, and the project has entered the foundation excavation stage. The National South China Sea Museum will be built into a world-class large modern national comprehensive museum. It is a public welfare cultural institution dedicated to collecting, protecting, and researching materials and evidence related to the South China Sea, and to showcasing and promoting the South China Sea's long history, splendid culture, and rich natural resources from multiple angles and at multiple levels.