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Sea ice concentration (SIC) as the main geophysical variable for quantifying the sea ice change in the polar regions is very important for the studies of climate and polar marine environments. This study derives a SIC product covering the Arctic and Antarctic from November 2010 to December 2019, which is the first long-term SIC product derived from the Microwave Radiation Imager (MWRI) sensors onboard the Chinese FengYun-3B, -3C, and -3D satellites, after a recent re-calibration of brightness temperature. We improved the previous Arctic Radiation and Turbulence Interaction Study Sea Ice (ASI) dynamic tie points algorithm mainly by changing input brightness temperature and initial tie points. The MWRI-ASI SIC was compared to the existing ASI SIC products and validated using ship-based SIC observations. Results show that the MWRI-ASI SIC mostly coincides with the ASI SIC obtained from the Special Sensor Microwave Imager series sensors, with overall biases of -1.4 ± 1.8% and 0.5 ± 2.2% in the Arctic and Antarctic, respectively. The overall mean absolute deviation between the MWRI-ASI SIC and ship-based SIC is 16.1% and 17.1% in the Arctic and Antarctic, respectively, which is close to the existing ASI SIC products. The trend of sea ice extent (SIE) derived from MWRI-ASI SIC closely agrees with those of the Sea Ice Index SIEs provided by OSI-SAF and NSIDC. Therefore, the MWRI-ASI SIC is comparable with other ASI SIC products and can be applied independently.