Pictured: "Deep Sea Exploration - Another Perspective on the Earth" cover
The vast ocean provides a huge space for human sustainable development and rich resources. The deep sea is arguably the most unknown world on earth. Zhang Jiansong, chief reporter and senior reporter of the Shanghai Branch of the Xinhua News Agency, collected his front-line interviews in the Indian, Pacific, South China, and East China Seas in recent years, and his real observations, thoughts, and feelings into a book -- "Exploring the Deep Sea -- Looking at the Earth from a Different Perspective," which was recently officially published by the Shanghai Dictionary Publishing House.
Zhang Jiansong is the first female reporter in the history of Xinhua News Agency to go to the Antarctic to interview, the first female reporter to arrive at the North Pole to cover the interview, nearly 20 times in 12 years, from 2012 to 2013, she went to the territorial waters of China's Diaoyu Islands five times to interview, witnessing the historic moment when the Chinese people resolutely defended the sovereignty of the Diaoyu Islands, and the press card was collected by the National Museum. The report won the China Journalism Award, and the photographs taken became the cover of the Diaoyu Islands map published in China and were selected for primary school textbooks. From 2013 to 2014, Zhang Jiansong participated in China's 30th Antarctic scientific expedition, and all media reported major news of international concern such as the "Xue long" rescue of the Russian ship in distress in Antarctica, its own trapping, successful breakthrough, and emergency search for the missing Malaysia Airlines MH370 passenger plane.
In "Deep Sea Exploration - Another Perspective on the Earth", Zhang Jiansong used the first perspective to restore the most real deep ocean, expounded the mysteries of marine science and the spirit of exploration of scientists, and used women's delicate observations to show the mystery and magnificence of nature. The whole book is full of pictures and texts, interspersed with hundreds of exquisite photos taken by the author, accompanied by wonderful live videos, WeChat scan the QR code on the book, you can click to watch, is the innovative book of the media era.
Zhang Jiansong's works are permeated with the joys and sorrows of scientists in deep-sea exploration. Her two participations in the International Ocean Drill can make people feel the anxious state of mind of the entire ship's scientists when the core is lifted from thousands of meters to the deck, and the amazing joy of suddenly discovering deep-water coral forests. Wang Pinxian, a marine geologist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, believes that "the marine genes implicit in Chinese civilization need to be activated by contemporary efforts." We hope that Zhang Jiansong's 'battlefield account' of exploring the deep sea in the 21st century will help to carry forward the marine components in Chinese civilization. This book can also be read as "Xu Xia's Travels" at sea." (Xinmin Evening News reporter Xu Yisheng)
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