The British Royal National Lifeboat Institution handed over two of its high-tech rescue boats to the Shanghai-based salvage bureau last Friday, as part of a five-year agreement for sea rescue cooperation between the two parties, Shanghai Daily reported.

The Ministry of Communication had imported six such high-speed lifeboats from the British institution since last September.

The boats are now serving in the East China Sea, the South China Sea as well as in Bohai Sea.

(Shanghai Daily June 5, 2006)