Located on beautiful Zhifu island of Yantai, Beihai Rescue Bureau of the Ministry of communications (hereinafter called Beihai Rescue) was established on 28 June, 2003, occupying 17.1 hectare and owning fixed asset of 480 million RMB. She has 4 rescue bases, namely Tianjin, Dalian, Qinhuangdao and Rongcheng base. Dalian base and Beihai flying service base are currently under preparation of construction. Presently she has 750 staff, including 452 crew and 134 shore technicians.

Beihai Rescue undertakes the missions of life-saving on domestic and foreign vessels, marine facilities and aircrafts in distress in northern Chinese water or Heilongjiang river; fire-fighting with life-saving as main purpose; salvage of distressed vessels, marine facilities and other properties, aiming at life-saving; political or military missions and disaster relieves assigned by the government, as well as performing obligations under international conventions and bilateral maritime agreements, etc..

Presently Beihai Rescue has 10 salvage vessels, i.e. 9000kw Beihai 111 with a maximum speed of 20 knots,10560kw De Xiang with a maximum speed of 20 knots, 10000kw Beihai 108 with a maximum speed of 16 knots, 3280kw De Yang with a maximum speed of 14.5 knots, all of which are ocean-going tug, undertaking the stand-by missions on stations of Beihai No.1,Beihai No.3, Yantai and Rongcheng, as well as 5 1940kw salvage tugs and 1 harbour tug, undertaking stand-by missions on stations of NanHuangcheng, Qinhuangdao, Dalian, Tianjin and Qingdao respectively.

In accordance with the latest deployment of MOC, Beihai Rescue has established 6 routine stand-by stations since 10 July 2003 respectively on Yantai, Tianjin, Dalian, Rongcheng, Bohai strait and Bohai Bay, and 2 seasonal stand-by stations on Qingdao and Qinhuangdao, among which the newly-established Bohai No.1 stand-by station is positioned in the middle of Bohai strait and is the most important stand-by station for the safety protection of domestic and foreign vessels proceeding in or out of Bohai strait, especially for the Ro-Ro vessels navigating between Dalian and Yantai, Weihai, Laizhou, Penglai and Longkou. With more marine rescue helicopters put into service, a perfecting air-sea salvage network will be established with 5 rescue bases, 8 salvage vessels and 2 helicopters.

The establishment of Beihai Rescue, Donghai Rescue and Nanhai Rescue marks that Chinese salvage industry has entered into a new historical stage. All staff of Beihai Rescue will make their best endeavor to build itself a professional maritime salvor with Capable Personnel, Excellent Equipment, Consummate Technology, Playing Key Roles at Crucial Moments in accordance with the instruction of the Ministry of Communications with a view to better fulfilling obligation of life-saving at sea, protecting safety of northern Chinese coastal water and improving the marine investment environment.