Economic Herald:

We have noticed that China's marine economy surpassed 10 trillion yuan in 2025. The draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan proposes promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy. How do you view this arrangement? How will this be implemented going forward? Thank you.

Zheng Bei:

I would like to invite Mr. Yuan to answer this question.

Yuan Da:

Thank you for your questions. As both a major land country and a major maritime country, China boasts a mainland coastline of about 18,000 kilometers and a sea area of nearly 3 million square kilometers. Strengthening the development, utilization, and protection of marine resources, and promoting the high-quality development of the marine economy are key priorities. Both provide important support for optimizing the national land spatial development pattern and advancing coordinated regional development.

A separate chapter is dedicated to this initiative in the draft outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan, which calls for increasing the capacity for sea management, stepping up efforts to build china into a strong maritime country, and forging a Chinese path of leveraging marine resources to achieve strength. In terms of the tasks laid out, the plan places emphasis on five key priorities.

First, we will place greater emphasis on innovation-driven development to advance high-level self-reliance and strength in marine science and technology. We will strengthen the strategic sci-tech forces in the marine sector, make more breakthroughs in key core technologies and equipment, and create more national heavyweights. We will improve the marine sci-tech innovation ecosystem, promote digital and intelligent transformation in the marine sector, and promote the development of marine education, science and technology, and talent.

Second, we will place greater emphasis on efficient coordination to optimize the layout of marine economic development. We will promote coordinated land-sea development planning and build marine economic development demonstration zones and modern marine cities as growth engines. We will also encourage coastal and inland regions to strengthen cooperation in the marine economy, actively promote the three-dimensional utilization of sea areas, and advance island development in a categorized and orderly manner. In addition, we will improve the support and guarantee system for deep-sea and polar exploration.

Third, we will place greater emphasis on industrial upgrading to strengthen, optimize and expand the marine industry. China ranks first in the world in shipbuilding and ocean engineering equipment, marine fisheries, and offshore wind power. We will further consolidate and enhance the advantages of the marine equipment manufacturing industry, while fostering and expanding emerging industries such as marine biomedicine. We will also raise the development level of modern shipping, marine tourism and other service industries, and accelerate the efficient utilization of marine energy and resources.

Fourth, we will place greater emphasis on harmony between humans and the sea to comprehensively improve the quality of the marine ecological environment. We will carry out a new round of comprehensive marine surveys, advance pollution prevention and control in key sea areas, and push forward shoreline improvement, ecological protection and restoration efforts. We will also strictly control land reclamation from the sea, strengthen the cleanup and resource utilization of marine waste, and enhance the stability of marine ecosystems.

Fifth, we will place greater emphasis on win-win cooperation to firmly safeguard maritime security and maritime rights and interests. We will actively promote the building of a maritime community with a shared future and play an active role in shaping international rules on ocean governance. We will also deepen international cooperation in marine scientific research and surveys, disaster prevention and mitigation, and the blue economy. In addition, we will strengthen risk prevention and legal efforts and improve the systems and mechanisms for safeguarding our maritime rights and interests. Thank you.