20 13, Shanghai ocean university abyss science and technology research center (hereinafter referred to as "abyss center") was established in Lingang. In order to recruit new teams and develop Abyss Technology, its founder, Professor Cui Weicheng, the former first deputy chief designer of "Jiaolong", found Professor Fang who was far away from home.

Fang is a second-class professor at Shanghai Ocean University and the director of Shanghai Abyss Science and Engineering Technology Research Center. Before coming to Hong Kong, he was a world-renowned deep-sea microbiologist and biogeochemistry. Such an identity doomed his life to be inextricably linked with the ocean.