China's icebreaker Xue Long will set sail from Shanghai to the Antarctic. Its captain Zhu Bing said that the icebreaker would first travel to the to－be－built new station before     1    (make) a short stop at Zhongshan station. One of its main tasks is to build another research station in the Antarctic.

Once     2    (complete), the new station would be the country's third year－round station in the Antarctic and the first to be lying     3     the border of the Pacific Ocean.     4     other two stations, the Great Wall Station and the Zhongshan Station,     5    (build) in the 1980s. “This time around, we will build a 206－square－meter temporary base, which includes rooms for workers and a platform for large engineering     6    (machine), to improve future construction work，” said Zhang Tijun of the Polar Research Institute of China,     7     is the assistant leader of the expedition.

Sun Bo, the deputy director of the institute, was     8    (confidence) to say that the construction of the station, which will     9    (certain) meet international criteria for environmental     10    (protect), will be finished as early as 2022.