Having completed numerous expedition missions, including establishing an Arctic station named Yellow River Station, constructing China's Arctic GPS satellite tracking station, and establishing a geographic information system for the polar region, the China Arctic expedition team returned to its homeland on August 25, 2004.

During the arduous expedition lasted for more than half a month, researchers received more than 46,000 groups of GPS satellite metadata, apart from installing a field antenna for permanent GPS tracking in the region. Researchers also made a preliminary investigation in the geological environment of the Svalbard Island, and photographed all the structures in the Ny-Alesund area, where the Yellow River Station is physically located. These photographs will help scientists, using visual techniques, reproduce Ny-Alesund, a small town housing Arctic expedition teams from different countries, allowing people who have never been to the North Pole to have a vivid digital view of the Arctic. The Arctic geographic information system is an essential space information platform that an Arctic expedition has to count on in interactive analysis of dynamic environment and multiple scientific elements, as well as in automated management and decision-making. The completion of GIS will greatly facilitate China's future expeditions in the region.