Xi Jinping, the president of China, who has traveled from Europe, Pacific and Carribean Islands pursuing his nation's strategic interest, is now planning to establish a mark on another far region, the Antarctic.

The Chinese president made his appearance in Hobart, Tasmania and he stood on the deck of an icebreaker, which carried the Chinese scientists prior to their deployment in Antarctica. Xi pledged that China will continuously expand in the last continent that is unscathed and unexploited by humans, according to the NY Times.

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This will take effect as China signed a five-year agreement with the Australian government.

The Chinese aircraft carrying scientists and workers in the near future, will receive benefits of replenished fuel and food supplies before heading south of the Antarctica. This will facilitate an easier access of the part of the region challenged by extreme temperature and its geographical location.

Antarctica is located approximately 2,000 miles south of Hobart. The region is deemed to be rich in oil and mineral resources, high protein marine life and even fresh potable water contained in the icebergs.

Almost seventy years after Robert Scott and Ronald Amulsen headed to the South Pole, the Beijing team elevated the flag that represented the nation's first research station based in Antarctica. The first research station was named "The Great Wall Station," located in King George Island.

Since then, China's main goal was to catch up with other countries' progress towards research. The nation has already spent a lot in developing research stations on the continent.

China recently opened its fourth research station and they are now currently surveying a feasible area where they can build a fifth research station. A second icebreaker and ice capable planes and helicopters are already in place as a part of the Antarctic research team.

China remains to be one of the rapid growing countries among the 52 countries who signed the Antarctic Treaty. The treaty, signed by various countries in 1959, prohibits military activity in the area and provides the goal of preserving it as one of the world's unexploited wilderness.

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