The “Seamount Habitat Oasis Watch (SHOW)” project filed by China’s National Deep Sea Center was included in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. The secretariat of the UN “Coastal Cities” platform was located in Qingdao. The 2025 international seminar on climate change adaptation and marine environmental protection opened in Qingdao. Since the beginning of this year, Qingdao has made multiple breakthroughs in international marine cooperation and exchanges.

As of this June, a total of 12 projects from Qingdao have been included in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development, representing one third of China’s total number and the most among Chinese cities. This year, Qingdao has secured another new breakthrough in joint marine scientific expeditions. That is the ninth China-Russia joint scientific expedition, which commenced in July.

The ocean nurtures life, connects the world, and facilitates development. As a city where the vision of building a maritime community with a shared future was put forward, Qingdao continues to open wider to the outside world, works hard to be a global exchange center for global maritime affairs, and has drawn new international landscapes in terms of building of new international platforms for maritime exchanges and expanding new frontiers in international maritime cooperation. (Li Xunxiang)

Deep Sea No. 1, carrying China’s manned submersible and scientists from many countries, departs for an international joint scientific expedition.