The South China Sea Tsunami Advisory Center is hosted and funded by China's National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center in Beijing.
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The center opened on Tuesday to provide round-the-clock tsunami early warning services to nine countries the South China Sea, including Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand and Vietnam, according to a statement the SCSTAC sent to the Global Times on Tuesday.
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The SCSTAC is not only in charge of providing advisories to countries in the region but also disaster relief-related training and educational programs.
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Observers hailed the center as a latest manifestation of China's unwavering efforts to regional peace and prosperity, unlike another power outside the region that only adds instability to the South China Sea area.