Xinhua news agency, Everest base camp, May 4 - at noon on the 4th, 13 Everest scientific research team members successfully climbed Everest. This is the first time that China’s scientific research on Everest has exceeded the altitude of more than 8000 meters, which is of epoch-making significance in the history of scientific investigation and Research on the Qinghai Tibet Plateau.

The scientific research team completed the erection of the highest automatic weather station in the world. At 3 a.m. that day, the Everest scientific research summit working group headed by Deqing ouzhu launched a summit with scientific research instruments. The first mission was to set up a meteorological station. To this end, they practiced repeatedly a few months ago and became proficient in the operation process.

Zhao Huabiao, a researcher at the Qinghai Tibet Plateau Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, said: “the construction of the Everest gradient meteorological observation system in China is of great significance to the monitoring of high-altitude glaciers and snow changes.”

On the 4th, the scientific research team also used high-precision radar to measure the thickness of ice and snow at the top of the mountain for the first time.

In the tent of the general command conference room at the foot of Everest at an altitude of 5200 meters, Yao Tandong, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and leader of the second Qinghai Tibet scientific research team, announced on the spot: “the ‘peak mission’ Everest scientific research summit observation and sampling was successful!” At the scene, everyone applauded warmly and shook hands to celebrate.

It is reported that the scientific research team will also carry out a number of scientific investigations and research in the follow-up.