Chinese sailing team, "China Sina", will depart from France next week to complete their global tour.

It will mark the completion of the first round-the-world trip undertaken by a sailing team from the Chinese mainland.

The team, having finished their 2005 11,000-sea-mile tour of the Eastern Hemisphere, will travel westward this time on May 24th.

It will take half a year for the team to cross the Atlantic, Panama Canal, and Pacific Ocean to finally stop in southeast China's Shenzhen city.

(CRI English May 17, 2006)