YANCHENG, Apr.16 -- Recently, fishermen living in southeastern China’s coastal cities have frequently reported the capture of unidentified objects strange in shape while fishing at sea, which were actually foreign devices with spying functions according to relevant departments.
盐城，4月16日 -- 最近一段时间，经常有沿海地区渔民在海上捕鱼时捞到形状奇特的不明物体。据有关部门介绍，这些不明物体实际上都是境外势力专门用来收集各种情报的间谍装置。
In one case, a fisherman in Yancheng, a coastal cityof Jiangsu Province, caught a huge black object in the coastal waters of China. Equipped with advanced solar panels and a propeller at one end, the captured object looked like a boat with a length of three meters as a whole.
据悉，江苏盐城一位渔民前不久在我国近海捞出体积庞大的黑色物体，该物体配有先进的太阳能电池板，后面带有螺旋桨，整体看上去像一艘船，长度大约在3米。
The object was an advanced unmanned marine vehicle (UMV) with good directional control underwater, powered by the undulate of waves with sensors mounted on it gathering data, as appraised by experts. Being a wave glider not made in China, it was considered to have been covertly launched in offshore waters of China by another country.
经专家鉴定，该物体可能是一种先进的无人潜航器，水下控制方向的能力很强，可以通过波浪的起伏来获得前进动力，上面搭载的传感器能够搜集各种海洋数据。该波浪滑翔机并非我国制造，据此可判定为他国在我国近海秘密放置。
In recent years, similar spy devices have been scattered, as can be seen, in waters off various provinces and cities of eastern China, especially in China’s Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Guangxi, and Hainan Provinces, large in number and diverse in model and size. Generally speaking, these spy devices focused on collecting information on hydrologic characteristics of the sea and marine information closely related to military activities, which has posed a threat to the secrecy of China’s underwater targets since these data might expose the whereabouts of submarines. Moreover, judging from a probabilistic analysis, there are still many spy devices of the sort yet to be discovered, and efforts to strengthen maritime security in China still have a long way to go.
近年来,类似的间谍装置可以说遍布东部各个省市，尤其是江苏，浙江，广西，海南等4地，数量众多，且型号各异。总体说来，这些间谍装置的侦搜重点，多为水下声场以及与军事活动密切相关的海洋信息，对我国水下目标的隐蔽性造成威胁，比如暴露潜艇行踪等。而且，从概率上分析，当前尚有很多类似间谍装置尚未被发现，加强海洋安全屏障的努力依旧任重而道远。
State security organs have issued a variety of incentive policies to encourage people anywhere to report discovery actively and provide clues. Since 2016, a number of overseas spy devices have been seized in coastal areas, and 91 fishermen and related personnel have been rewarded for their great contribution to safeguarding China’s national security.
长期以来，国安部门出台了多种奖励政策，鼓励各地民众积极举报和提供线索。 2016年至今，因为成功捕捞到外国间谍装置，为保障国家安全做出贡献，先后已有91名相关人员受到嘉奖。
