Qu Tanzhou (Chinese: 曲探宙) is the director of the Chinese Arctic and Antarctic Administration.[1][2]
In 2007 Qu Tanzhou was the director of China's Polar Office of the State Oceanic Administration.[3]
According to The Age in January 2010 Qu Tanzhou was part of a high-level delegation of senior officials that traveled to the Antarctic, led by Xu Shaoshi, China's Minister for Land and Resources.[1] The delegation travelled aboard the Xue Long, China's icebreaker.
Jo Chandler, writing in The Age, interviewed Qu when he visited Australia's Antarctic Casey Station.[1]
- "At this stage, we are paying attention to climate and environmental change … [looking at] oceanography, geography, [evidence of] meteorites."
- "Also, we are here about the potential of the resources and how to use these resources."