South China Sea, China - Recent (CCTV - No access Chinese mainland)
1. Deep-water pipe laying crane vessel "Hai Yang Shi You 201”
2. Various of workers welding pipes
3. Undersea pipeline
4. Various of pipeline being laid into seabed
5. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Deng Xinwang, director, "Hai Yang Shi You 201” vessel:
"We laid steel tubes that measure 80 cm in diameter and weigh 12 tons each, on the seabed about 100 meters deep. It was an extremely challenging job. It was the first time that we continued construction all year round, given the strong wind, high waves and rapid waters of the South China Sea."
6. Various of steel tubes
7. Vessel

China Sunday finished laying a 195-kilometer-long undersea pipeline in the South China Sea, the longest of the kind in the country.

The laying took more than five months to complete and was carried out by China's first indigenous deep-water pipe laying crane vessel -- the "Hai Yang Shi You 201”.

The pipeline is a supporting facility of a gas field in the western part of the South China Sea, and is expected to transport natural gas to south China’s Guangdong and Hainan provinces and Hong Kong upon the gas field is put into operation.

The completion of the project advanced China's underwater pipe-laying capacity to a leading global level.

"We laid steel tubes that measure 80 cm in diameter and weigh 12 tons each, on the seabed about 100 meters deep. It was an extremely challenging job. It was the first time that we continued construction all year round, given the strong wind, high waves and rapid waters of the South China Sea," said Deng Xinwang, director of "Hai Yang Shi You 201” vessel.