 China to split state marine rescue and salvage operations |
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China's Ministry of Communications will form three marine rescue bureaus on 24-hour standby as part of the country's plan to separate rescue from salvage operations.
The ministry, together with the State Development Planning Commission, State Economic and Trade Commission, Ministry of Finance, Ministry of Labor and Social Security and Central Committee on Organizational Structure, has jointly dawn up the reform plan.
It defines the government as responsible for the non-profitable job of rescuing people at sea.
The assets and staff of the current rescue and salvage bureaus in Yantai, Shanghai and Guangzhou will form the three new rescue bureaus for the North, East and South China Sea respectively.
The new bureaus will operate with funding from the Ministry of Finance.
The remaining assets and staff from the former bureaus will be used to establish three salvage bureaus, which will operate independently.
All six new bureaus will still be under the direct management of the Ministry of Communications.
A helicopter base will also be established.
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