The Great Wall Station, built on February 10, 1985, is the first Antarctic scientific research base successfully built by China in Antarctica, named after the Great Wall of China. It is located in the south of King George Island in the South Shetland Islands, West Antarctica. Since its completion, the Great Wall Station has taken shape through year-by-year expansion and repairs, and the living facilities have been quite perfect, as well as a miniature science city. There are 25 buildings in its 4,200 square meters of floor space, including the main building, dormitory building, power generation building, scientific research building, cultural, sports and medical building, meteorological building, oil depot, sewage treatment station, warehouse, helipad, etc. The scientific laboratories are equipped with facilities for scientific research. Its scientific laboratories are equipped with various instruments and equipment for scientific research. Scientific researches on the station mainly focus on marine biology, geology, high-altitude physics, geomagnetism, meteorology, GPS joint measurement, and so on. It can accommodate 40 wintering researchers and 80 summering researchers every year.
Zhongshan Station was built on February 26, 1989, named after Sun Yat-sen. It is located in the Lazman Hills area of the East Antarctic continent. The average elevation of the station area is 11 meters above sea level. Zhongshan station on the buildings are office building, dormitory building, meteorological building, scientific research building, cultural and sports building and power generation building, garage, oil tanks and so on 15, building area of more than 3,000 square meters. In addition to advanced communication equipment and comfortable living conditions, it also has relatively complete scientific laboratories. Its scientific research building has a high-level physics observation room, a GPS observation room, a geomagnetic room, a solid tide observation room, and an astronomical ozone observation room. As a base for inland research, Zhongshan Station is also equipped with transportation tools such as large 240 snowmobiles, large 170 snowmobiles, and small snowmobiles for use on the station in order to conduct inland research. Routine observations carried out at Zhongshan Station throughout the year include ionosphere, upper atmospheric physics, geomagnetism, solid tides, ozone and GPS linkage. In summer, biological, geological, glacial and human medical observations are also conducted. Zhongshan Station can accommodate 50-60 researchers in summer and 20-25 wintering personnel in winter.