TIANJIN, Feb. 28 (Xinhua) -- China plans to build a laboratory to work on emergency treatment of oceanic oil spills in north China's Tianjin Municipality, local authorities said Wednesday.
The lab will be located in the Sino-Singapore Tianjin Eco-City in Binhai New Area on Bohai Bay, according to the administrative committee of the Eco-City.
Funded by the Ministry of Transport waterborne transport research institute, the lab will be a testing field for research on oceanic ecological protection.
China spends about 200 million yuan (32 million U.S. dollars) each year on research into emergency treatment of oil spills but the technology has not been widely used due to a lack of proper testing field.
Only the United States and France have labs specializing in ocean oil spills.
