According to the newly-unveiled Several Policies on Boosting High-quality Development of Qingdao’s Marine Economy (hereinafter referred to as the 20 Measures on Marine Development), Qingdao will take further steps to motivate marine sci-tech personnel to innovate, step up efforts to support and cultivate the modern marine industry and market players that fall in the “4+4+2” system, give more play to the underpinning role of the construction of the marine industry cluster area and blue finance, and take advantage of society-wide resources to bolster high-quality development of marine economy.

With a focus on advanced, green, intelligent and cluster-based development, the 20 Measures on Marine Development have summarized and drawn marine economy-related policies in Chinese coastal areas. With a broad coverage, these new policies are aimed at establishing systems to support in a comprehensive way a range of fields from branded fisheries, marine biology manufacturing, new marine energy, blue finance, marine artificial intelligence to the building of industrial clusters. Enormous support will be offered. An estimated RMB420 mln of fiscal funding will be ploughed. Boasting a sound guarantee system, the 20 Measures stipulate the three-pronged assurance mode that combines “industrial clusters, finance and workforce” as well as a mechanism to build ocean-featured financial institutions in an endeavor to create favorable conditions for industrial development. (Li Xunxiang)

The 150,000-ton intelligent aquaculture ship “Guoxin No. 1 2-2” is delivered in Qingdao for operation.