The Ministry of Natural Resources has opened the Antarctic tourism project, so will everyone travel to the Antarctic in the future?

Of course it will. If you don't play in the Antarctic, why do you drive? Is it boring? According to the guidelines, enterprises planning to apply for a trip to the Great Wall Station in Antarctica can submit written materials in Chinese to the government affairs hall of the Ministry of Natural Resources from September 15 to September 30 every year. The applicant enterprise formally sends a letter in the name of the company, puts forward an application for visiting the Great Wall Station, and submits an environmental assessment in Chinese and English according to the ship route and landing plan; Make a written commitment to undertake safety and environmental protection responsibilities; In addition, it is necessary to submit the license for leasing ships to carry out polar tourism activities approved by the relevant administrative departments of the state, the business license and business license of the tourism enterprise, and the Antarctic navigation contract between the tourism enterprise and the leased ship.

Dong Yue, deputy dean and professor of the Law School of China Ocean University, said: "Before that, there were actually a series of relevant regulations and documents to regulate the management of the Great Wall Station and the tourism activities of China citizens in Antarctica. This time the relevant regulations are more grounded and more effective. " 1985 February 15, Great Wall Station completed. Ten months after the Great Wall Station was built, China officially became the Antarctic Treaty Consultative Party at the 13 Antarctic Treaty Consultative Party Meeting.

Dong Yue pointed out that an important starting point for fulfilling environmental protection obligations in Antarctica is to conduct environmental impact assessment, "following the principle of' strict environmental protection obligations' and strictly protecting the Antarctic environment and ecosystem. There are relevant provisions in the Antarctic Treaty, and enterprises should conduct special environmental impact assessments on their activities. "

In addition to environmental protection, enterprises must abide by the "self-sufficiency principle" in organizing tourism activities in Antarctica. Dong Yue said: "Because the Antarctic environment is very bad, there is no fixed human community. In addition to the activities organized by the state, individuals, enterprises or other organizations that carry out activities in Antarctica must bear the necessary expenses for carrying out activities and logistical support. Moreover, it is particularly important to bear the costs related to ensuring your own safety, which must be planned in advance. "

However, after all these preparations are made through the application, it is not easy to visit the Great Wall Station. Enterprises that have passed the application can get in touch with the Great Wall Station in China and arrange specific tourist visits on the basis of strictly observing the Regulations on the Management of Visits to the Great Wall Station in Antarctica. According to the application guidelines, the Great Wall Station 1 building is open to the public as an Antarctic historical site and memorial hall. Other buildings in the Great Wall Station are not open to the public. The open area of the station area extends to Building 1 in the west, docks and landing points in the east, Juma River in the south and Lake Scuya in the station area in the north, with an open area of about 0.5 square kilometers. Tourists should be in accordance with the requirements of the checkpoint in the designated areas and designated routes. Due to work needs, Dong Yue has also been to the South Pole and visited the Great Wall Station. He said: "This guide clearly defines the boundary between tourists and normal scientific research order. Therefore, although the open area is only a small part of our station area, we can better arrange Antarctic activities according to the needs of investigation and the functional requirements of education, which actually plays a promoting role. "

In the 1950s and 1960s, some people began to travel in Antarctica. From 65438 to 0966, 40 tourists from Argentina visited the South Pole, which caused great repercussions internationally. Due to the rich profits, for a time, tourism companies from the United States, Russia, Canada and other countries have chartered ships to carry out Antarctic tourism activities. At the beginning of 20 14, a large number of tourists visited the Antarctic Great Wall Station, which once caused controversy. At that time, the news reported that during the Spring Festival that year, a tour group of several hundred people visited the Great Wall Station. In the face of sudden tourists, the staff at that time said that as long as conditions allowed, special personnel would be arranged to receive them, but the food, drinking water and oil in the scientific research station were allocated according to the needs of the team members in the station, which could not bear the consumption of non-scientific research projects, and once tourists had physical problems, it was difficult to deal with them with the limited resources of the scientific research station.