The 205,000-ton bulk carrier manufactured by

Qingdao Yangfan Shipbuilding Co., Ltd. is launched.

    With the implementation of blue leading strategy, blue economy has become a new growth pole in Qingdao. Last year, the added value of Qingdao’s ocean economy reached 111.44 billion yuan, accounting for 15.26 % of the city’s GDP, 1.21 percentage points higher than its proportion of last year. Its growth rate has been up to 19.9%.

    Since last year, Qingdao has identified 8 marine special industrial parks, won 163 million yuan of special funds from Shandong Province, allocated 90.90 million yuan of municipal special funds, and actively promoted industrial agglomeration and the intensive development of industrial parks. All these measures accelerate the growth of marine industry.

    In terms of enhancing the capability of independent innovation, Qingdao quickened its pace of establishing marine science & technology platforms such as deep sea base, and completed the construction of a number of marine industrial technology innovation strategic alliance, including marine corrosion prevention, seawater seedlings, marine instruments & equipments, etc.. Qingdao also opened the Sino-South Korea land-ocean transportation channel for trucked goods, established the automobile import port, and approved the policy of tax rebate at the port of departure. It started construction of Jiaozhou Bay Wetlands Special Protection Zone, completed the construction of directly-discharged- into- sea wastewater treatment project of marine industrial enterprises. It established two country-local joint innovation platforms, including marine coatings and marine ecological farming. Besides, the National Offshore Talent Market was established. (Lin Gang)