Song Kun, center, a 31-year-old sailor from Qingdao, in Shandong province, Eastern China became the first Chinese woman to circumnavigate the globe when she arrived in London on June 12 after completing all 16 legs of the 2013-14 Clipper Round the World Yacht Race in a vessel named Qingdao. Photo provided to China Daily

Song, second right, with founder of Clipper Ventures PLC Sir Robin Knox-Johnston, center, record-breaking yachtswoman Dame Ellen MacArthur, second left, Olympic champion Xu Lijia, left, and China's first solo non-stop global voyager Guo Chuan, right. Photo provided to China Daily