The Yangtze River Delta Ocean Economy Demonstration City Integration High Quality Development Seminar Was Held in Shanghai

On September 25th, with the support of the Yangtze River Delta Cooperation and Exchange Office and the East China Sea Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the "High-end Development Seminar on the Integration of the Yangtze River Delta Ocean Economy Demonstration City" hosted by the Shanghai Municipal Oceanic Bureau and Shanghai Jiao Tong University was held in Shanghai. Zhou Cheng, vice secretary of CPC Committee of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Wang Feng, deputy director of the East China Sea Bureau of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Wang Huajie, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Oceanic Bureau, and Zhao Jun, the second class inspector of the Natural Resources Department of Jiangsu Province, attended the meeting. About 80 people were invited to participate, including ones from the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office, marine economic authorities and marine industrial park management agencies in Yancheng, Nantong, Zhoushan, and Ningbo, the Municipal Development and Reform Commission, the Municipal Economic and Information Committee, Lingang New Area Management Committee, Changxing Island Development Office, the Coastal Area Oceanic Bureau, the Municipal Ocean Engineering Consulting Association, Lingang Ocean High-tech Industrial Park, and Shanghai Changxing Marine Equipment Industrial Park.

Centering on the theme of “High-quality development of the integration of marine economy demonstration cities in the Yangtze River Delta”, the seminar invited Lu Junxi, deputy director of the Yangtze River Delta Regional Cooperation Office, Wu Jiannan, executive vice president and professor of China Institute for Urban Governance of Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Wei Lu, deputy dean and researcher of Shanghai Development and Reform Research Institute, and other experts and scholars to make keynote speeches. Marine economic authorities in Yancheng, Nantong, Chongming Changxing, Pudong, Zhoushan, Ningbo and other cities signed the Memorandum of Understanding on the Integration of High-quality Development of the Yangtze River Delta Ocean Economy Demonstration City, and talked about the cooperation vision of strengthening industrial synergy, innovation synergy and park synergy, and jointly writing a marine chapter for the integration of the Yangtze River Delta.

According to the accounting data of the Ministry of Natural Resources, the total marine production value of the 2018 Yangtze River Delta is 2,462.1 billion yuan, accounting for 29.1% of the national total marine production. The coordinated development of the regional marine economy has become an important part of the integrated development of the Yangtze River Delta. During the “Thirteenth Five-Year Plan” period, the State Oceanic Bureau and the Ministry of Finance approved Nantong, Pudong, Zhoushan, Ningbo and other places to create a model city for marine economic innovation and development, and to undertake the task of collaborative innovation and industrial incubation of the high-end marine equipment and marine bio-industry industries; the National Development and Reform Commission and the Ministry of Natural Resources approved Yancheng, Chongming Changxing, Ningbo and other places to build a demonstration zone for marine economic development, undertaking tasks such as exploring comprehensive protection and utilization models of coastal wetland resources, innovating the green development model of marine industry, and innovating the investment and financing system of the marine industry. Through the construction of demonstration cities (districts), a development trend with reasonable layout, unique features and coordinated linkages will be gradually formed.

In the next stage, Shanghai's marine economic innovation and development should grasp the opportunity of integration in the Yangtze River Delta, comprehensively connect with the construction of new areas in Lingang, and support the promotion of the cultivation and growth of emerging industries such as marine intelligent manufacturing, marine life industry and marine modern service industry; the development should comprehensively promote the construction of Chongming Changxing Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zone, further develop the advantages of marine offshore equipment leading enterprises, promote the coordinated development of regional advanced manufacturing, productive service industries and high-tech industries, innovate the investment and financing system of the marine industry, and continuously strengthen the service radiation level.

In the future, all departments will rely on the Yangtze River Delta integration platform to strengthen communication, coordination and pragmatic cooperation in the following three aspects: studying and formulating an overall information plan that can guide and implement the coordinated innovation and development of the Yangtze River Delta marine industry, actively building an information platform integrating monitoring, analysis, information sharing and results transfer and transformation of the marine industry in the Yangtze River Delta, and gradually establishing a long-term normalized overall coordination mechanism. All departments should effectively promote the coordinated development of the Yangtze River Delta marine economic demonstration cities.