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Polar Research Institute of China

中国极地研究所

Headquarters: Shanghai
Founded: 1989
Employees: —

Official website

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Ships in this registry

Counted from individual vessel records · Wikidata

Reported fleet size

—

No published figure available

Container capacity

—

Not a ranked container line

Gross tonnage on record

27,718

Summed over 2 ships reporting tonnage

In brief

What Polar Research Institute of China is

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The Polar Research Institute of China is the main state research institute of the People's Republic of China for the study of Earth's polar regions. The PRIC is an agency within China's Ministry of Natural Resources and conducts polar scientific research, polar observation, and scientific expeditions. It is based in Shanghai, China.
The Institute manages six polar research stations (five in Antarctica and one in the Arctic), and jointly operates the China-Iceland Arctic Science Observatory (CIAO) with the Icelandic Centre for Research (Rannis). The PRIC operates the icebreaking research vessels Xue Long and Xue Long 2.

Corporate profile

Identity and registration

Legal name: 中国极地研究所
Industry: —
Legal form: —
Country of registration: People's Republic of China
Headquarters: Shanghai
Formed in: —
Founded: 1989
Dissolved: —
Employees: —
Head office coordinates: 31.2325, 121.4692

Ships on record here: 2
Vessel types operated: 1
Flag states used: 1
Average vessel age: 20.0 years
Oldest vessel on record: 1993
Newest vessel on record: 2019
Largest vessel by tonnage: 15,352
Average tonnage: 13,859
Market share: —
Parent company: Ministry of Natural Resources of the People's Republic of China
Alliance: —
Record source: wikidata
Last refreshed: 2026-09-05

Fleet on record

What this company sails

Composition of the 2 vessels this registry attributes to Polar Research Institute of China. Bars are true proportions of that set, not of the company's full fleet.

By vessel type

Research / survey2

By flag state

People's Republic of China2

By shipbuilder

Jiangnan Shipyard1

Kherson Shipyard1

Delivery history

10-year fleet record

Ships delivered in each of the last 10 years, counted from the recorded build year of vessels attributed to this company, with the running total of its fleet on record. 1 deliveries fall inside this window.

Year	Ships delivered	Gross tonnage added	Fleet on record
2017	0	—	1
2018	0	—	1
2019	1	12,366	2
2020	0	—	2
2021	0	—	2
2022	0	—	2
2023	0	—	2
2024	0	—	2
2025	0	—	2
2026	0	—	2

Vessel records

Ships on record

2 vessels

Ship	IMO	Type	Flag	Built	Gross tonnage	Deadweight	Length	Builder
Xue Long	8877899	Research / survey	People's Republic of China	1993	15,352	8,759	167.0 m	Kherson Shipyard
Xue Long 2	9829241	Research / survey	People's Republic of China	2019	12,366	—	122.5 m	Jiangnan Shipyard

Ships in registry counts individual vessel records attributed to the company here. Reported fleet is the company’s published total. They measure different things and are shown separately on purpose.

In context

How Polar Research Institute of China compares

Counts over companies and vessels actually held in this directory — not over the world fleet, which is larger. Nothing here is estimated.

With 2 vessels attributed to it here, Polar Research Institute of China is the 341st largest of the 965 operators in this directory that hold at least one ship on record, against a median of 2 across that group. That is a count of individually identified hulls, not the company’s published fleet size — the two are different measurements and both are shown above where available.

People's Republic of China is the country of registration for 12 commercial operators in this directory, among which Polar Research Institute of China ranks 2nd by ships on record. Between them those companies hold 18 vessels here. 1 of them carry a published container-capacity ranking. See every operator registered in People's Republic of China.

Founded in 1989, Polar Research Institute of China is 37 years old. This directory holds 121 operators founded within five years either side of that date, whose median fleet on record is 1 ships. The median founding year across all commercial operators here is 1966, and the oldest on record dates to 1514.