The XinHua News Agency reported on 23th,March that China encourage as the way of government purchase service to attract
the society emergency force to participate in the maintaining and use of national vessel’s oil spill response equipments
galley(Oil Spill Boom, Oil Skimmers, Floating Oil Tank etc), to develop the vessel oil spill response service go forward to
professionalization, marketization and large-scale. These were known from China Ministry of Transport.
China coast and inland river high risk water area already built 36 sets oil spill response equipments galleies. In the
<On strengthening national Marine oil spill emergency equipment running management guidance>, explicit mentioned oil
spill response galley mainly be used for vessels oil spill accident which is major accident and beyond the emergency ability of
local government and society force, it is a supplement and reserve of local government and society force.