CRI听力:Chinese Patrol Ship Completes Mission in Search for MH370

A Chinese patrol ship has returned to its base in Shanghai after completing its latest search mission for missing Malaysian Airlines flight MH370.

The ship spent 216 days in the southern Indian Ocean, covering over 240-thousand square kilometers.

Zhou Li with the Maritime Search and Rescue Center says Chinese authorities aren't giving up on the search for the missing plane.

"Now the search for MH370 has entered a deep-water search stage conducted by private companies. The Chinese authorities will have video meeting with the Perth-based Joint Agency Coordination Center on a weekly basis, and continue to dispatch personnel to Australia to assist the following search missions. We will join the search mission again if the debris of the plane are found."

Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 disappeared while enroute from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing in March with 239 people on-board, two-thirds of whom are Chinese.

Satellite data suggests the plane avoided radar and eventually crashed into the southern Indian Ocean off the west coast of Australia after flying for nearly 8-hours.