Off the wire
• Full text of joint communique of Russian, Indian, Chinese foreign ministers' meeting(2)  • Full text of joint communique of Russian, Indian, Chinese foreign ministers' meeting(3)  • Full text of joint communique of Russian, Indian, Chinese foreign ministers' meeting(4)  • Full text of joint communique of Russian, Indian, Chinese foreign ministers' meeting(1)  • Roundup: Party's leadership decisive factor for every victory: Vietnam's party chief  • IS militants flee surrounding of Syrian Kurdish city: activists  • Academic defends China's human rights record with judicial achievements (2)  • Academic defends China's human rights record with judicial achievements (1)  • Academic urges rationality on China's human rights  • Syrian minister underscores reconciliation's significance in solving Syrian crisis  
You are here: 　 Home

China appreciates Australia's commitment to MH370 search

Xinhua, February 2, 2015 Adjust font size:

China highly appreciates Australia's positive attitude towards the search for MH370, said the Foreign Ministry on Monday.

Malaysian Airlines flight MH370, a Boeing 777 aircraft with 239 people on board, including 154 Chinese nationals, disappeared on March 8, 2014 shortly after taking off from Kuala Lumpur en-route to Beijing. On Jan. 29, the Malaysian government officially declared the disappearance of MH370 an accident, and all 239 people on board the plane are presumed dead.

The Australian government remains committed to the search for MH370, the Joint Agency Coordination Center (JACC) for the search of MH370 said in a statement on Friday.

"The Australian Government will continue to work collaboratively with the Governments of Malaysia and the People's Republic of China in service of the families of those on board and the wider travelling public," said the statement.

Ministry spokesman Hong Lei told a regular press briefing that China will continue to work with Malaysia and Australia on the missing flight.

Around 18,000 square kilometers of the seafloor have been covered, around 30 percent of the priority search area. Around 208,000 square kilometers of the wider search area have been analyzed and mapped.

With no significant delays, the current search may be largely completed around May of this year. Endi