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China is a maritime power. Guangdong is a big marine province, with the longest mainland coastline and 1963 islands distributed in the vast sea area.
In April, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions during his inspection in Guangdong, and it is necessary to strengthen the overall planning of land and sea, the mutual assistance of mountains and seas, the overall layout of Hong Kong production cities, the protection of marine ecology, and the overall construction of a strong marine province.The Third Plenary Session of the 13th Guangdong Provincial Committee held in June emphasized that it is necessary to comprehensively promote the construction of a strong maritime province and make new breakthroughs in building a new Guangdong at sea.
Along the blue coordinates entrusted by the leaders, full of confidence and glory, since the beginning of this year, all parts of Guangdong have opened up one after another "routes" that are strong in the chart and prosperous by the sea, and jointly set up the "sails" to implement the strategy of strengthening the province by the sea, adding "blue power" to Guangdong’s high-quality development and Chinese-style modernization.
In order to deeply show the story of "New Guangdong at Sea" in the new era, strengthen confidence, stabilize expectations and promote development,From October 30th to November 5th, the large-scale online theme publicity campaign of "Looking at Guangdong from the Chart" directed by the Network Communication Bureau of the Central Network Information Office, hosted by the Network Information Office of Guangdong Provincial Party Committee and hosted by Southern News Network will jointly visit and investigate 14 coastal cities in Guangdong with more than 100 key online media reporters from central and provincial cities, experts and scholars in the related marine economy, well-known network experts and media creators. Nanfang Daily, Nanfang Net, Nanfang+and Guangdong Learning Client will launch a series of reports on "Strong Confidence, Steady Expectation and Promote Development" from now on, so please pay attention.
The ocean is the cradle of life and a treasure house of resources. She is mysterious, broad and vast, and is rich in marine mineral resources, seawater chemical resources, marine biological resources and marine power resources.
In April, 2023, General Secretary of the Supreme Leader made important instructions during his inspection in Guangdong, and it is necessary to strengthen the overall planning of land and sea, the mutual assistance of mountains and seas, the overall layout of Hong Kong production cities, the protection of marine ecology, and the overall construction of a strong marine province. The Third Plenary Session of the 13th CPC Central Committee put forward the specific deployment of "1310", and "comprehensively promoting the construction of a strong marine province and making new breakthroughs in building a new Guangdong at sea", as one of the top 10 new breakthroughs, is very important.
Guangdong is a big marine province, bordering on the South China Sea, with the longest coastline stretching over 4,000 kilometers, and the second largest sea area in China. Located in tropical and subtropical climate, it is suitable for marine fish culture all year round.
Guangdong Marine Economic Development Report (2023) released in June this year shows that Guangdong’s total marine economy has ranked first in the country for 28 consecutive years. In 2022, Guangdong’s marine GDP was 1.8 trillion yuan, up 5.4% year-on-year, accounting for 14% of the regional GDP and 19% of the national marine GDP. The marine economy has injected a steady stream of "blue power" into Guangdong’s economic development.
In accordance with the requirements of "sparing the near and using the far, giving priority to ecology", Guangdong has freed up offshore space for construction, project deployment and ecological protection, and vigorously expanded the development and utilization space of the deep sea.
Today, Guangdong forges the key to the treasure house of marine resources. A piece of deep-sea intelligent cage cultivates the sea for animal husbandry and fishing to build a "blue granary"; A marine scientific research ship sails to the ocean to explore the mystery under the deep blue; The ports are reluctant to help the province’s freight to "chain" the world … …
Accompanied by the whistle and the sound of waves, Guangdong has blown a loud horn for the high-quality development of the marine economy and played a new era movement that is stronger than the chart!
Guangzhou Nansha port area
Modern marine industry increases confidence
At 6 o’clock in the morning in the sea area of Zhizhou Islands in Guishan Town, Hezhou New District, Zhuhai, fishermen drove their boats to the deep-sea culture platform and put their nets into deep-water cages with mechanical booms. The boom is lifted, the net is closed, and a lively golden pomfret emerges from the water. Wujun, technical director of Guangdong Dalinyang Marine Life Co., Ltd., said that the company’s output of golden pomfret this year is expected to be around 2,000 tons, and the total output value is expected to be around 60 million yuan due to better quality than in previous years.
The ocean is a strategic place for high-quality development. The data shows that in the first half of this year, Zhuhai’s fishery industry achieved an output value of 4.69 billion yuan, an increase of 6.1%, showing a positive trend.
Behind the data, Zhuhai is relying on the innate advantages of 262 large and small islands and nearly 9348 square kilometers of sea area to vigorously promote the construction of marine pastures.
Since the beginning of this year, based on the endowment of marine resources and the development foundation of marine industry, Guangdong has strengthened and improved modern marine industries such as marine pasture, marine energy, port industry and marine tourism, and strengthened the support and guarantee of marine infrastructure, marine science and technology and marine ecology.
Dig deep into the blue sea and graze the future. At present, the construction of marine pasture in Guangdong has entered the "fast lane", and efforts have been made to open up the primary, secondary and tertiary industries, and to explore and build a modern marine pasture industry chain from seed industry, breeding, equipment to deep processing, which greatly enhances the economic development of Guangdong and makes marine pasture a part of economic, social and ecological systems. In particular, leisure fisheries and eco-tourism industries are organically integrated into the construction of marine pasture, giving full play to its pulling role in upstream and downstream industries and surrounding regional industries.
In terms of marine primary industry, Chaozhou city has made every effort to overcome the technical problems of Guangdong sea bass seedling industry and invested 80 million yuan to build a provincial sea bass seed farm; Nan ‘ao County, Shantou introduced the project of Pingyao deep-water cage culture base in Nan ‘ao County to promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional fisheries and the transformation of fishermen’s production and income; Relying on advantageous tourism and shipping enterprises, Zhongshan promotes the integrated development of marine pasture and ecological farming, and gradually forms a new growth point of marine pasture economy.
On the sea surface 69 kilometers offshore from Yangjiang, the iron giant turned the impeller and turned the sea breeze into green electricity. This is the world’s first "jacket+cage" integrated fishing and wind equipment, with an annual power generation of over 45 million kWh, over 150,000 fish farmers and an annual catch of 75 tons. Under the sea, the fish breeding situation is transmitted back to the intelligent platform in real time. The equipment adopts an intelligent fishery breeding system, which realizes intelligent feeding, intelligent monitoring, automatic net washing and automatic fish collection through big data and AI calculation. The staff can remotely check and carry out farming operations in real time through the fan observation data platform, which solves the problem of unattended and nursing of deep-sea farming and makes green fisheries further advance into the deep sea.
In terms of marine secondary industry, Guangdong will accelerate the development of new marine materials, marine equipment and other emerging industries, give full play to the main role of enterprises, enhance the leading power and competitiveness of "chain owners" of marine industries, cultivate and expand trillion-dollar industrial clusters of marine oil and gas chemicals and marine tourism, and hundreds of billions of marine industrial clusters such as marine clean energy, marine ships and marine engineering equipment, and enrich the manufacturing base of blue economy.
At present, Jiangmen has developed the first DCM deep cement mixer and the first submersible unmanned cutting machine in China. By using intelligent equipment such as digital welding equipment and digital laser cutting equipment, Nanyang ships have effectively solved the problems of high labor intensity and low welding efficiency in shipbuilding.
In February, 2023, the refinery double series, aromatic hydrocarbon and chemical plant of PetroChina Guangdong Petrochemical Refining and Chemical Integration Project located in Da Nanhai Petrochemical Industrial Park in Jieyang were put into production in an all-round way, which promoted Jieyang’s industrial production, helped Jieyang’s GDP growth rate jump to the first place in the province in the first half of the year, and built a new growth pole in the coastal economic belt of eastern Guangdong.
Jieyang PetroChina Guangdong Refining and Chemical Integration Project put into production Photo by Huang Weixu
In terms of marine tertiary industry, Guangdong has made great efforts to promote the formation of a number of counties, towns and villages that are prosperous, rich and beautiful by the sea, providing strong support for the coordinated development of urban and rural areas.
Maoming makes full use of Yanjingling’s unique coastal ecological resources, deeply excavates the marine cultural heritage, inherits the cultures of kindness, slang, family and fishermen, and introduces various formats such as food, cultural creation and homestay to create a new model of rural revitalization combining fishing, industry, culture and tourism — — Wajia Market is a rural portrayal of the blue economy helping "the high-quality development project of 100 counties, thousands of towns and villages". At present, more than 200 jobs have been created in Wajia Market, and villagers are employed at home. The per capita annual income is expected to increase from 17,000 yuan to 22,000 yuan, and the annual income of village collectives is about 1 million yuan.
Maoming yanjingling scenic spot
The strength of marine scientific research shows its spirit.
"Haima" remote control submersible, digital submarine seismograph, water glider, underwater self-service vehicle & HELIP; … In Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey, a number of "sea-exploring tools" with independent intellectual property rights are helping China to dream of deep blue.
In the field of marine energy development, the 20kW floating thermal power generation device led by Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey successfully completed the sea trial in the South China Sea. This is the first time that China has realized the principle verification and engineering operation of ocean thermoelectric power generation under actual sea conditions, which has effectively promoted the development and utilization of deep-sea energy in China.
Photo by Xi Xiaoqian, prototype unit of ocean thermoelectric power generation
In addition, the Deep-sea Science and Technology Innovation Center of Guangzhou Marine Geological Survey has been included in the State Council’s Overall Plan for Deepening the All-round Cooperation between Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Facing the World in Nansha, and the National Engineering Research Center for Natural Gas Hydrate Exploration and Development has settled in Nansha, becoming the first national engineering research center in the field of marine energy.
The continuous breakthrough of marine scientific research strength has provided solid and powerful technical support for the development of Guangdong’s marine economy, showing the spirit of Guangdong’s marine economy to achieve high-quality development.
The data shows that in 2022, the number of patents published in Guangdong Province in the fields of marine fisheries, marine renewable energy, marine oil and gas, minerals and marine drugs reached 19,375. Among them, Zhanjiang uses the model of "unveiling the list and taking the lead", focusing on aquatic products breeding, marine biomedicine, and green aquaculture equipment in Shenyuanhai, and promoting the precise docking of talent chain, innovation chain and industrial chain. The new aquatic products of Litopenaeus vannamei "Haimao No.1" and "Haixingnong No.3" independently cultivated locally broke the monopoly of foreign provenances and reached the international advanced level; A major breakthrough has been made in the artificial seedling raising technology of Zhanjiang high-altitude gizzard, which has solved the long-term problem that high-altitude gizzard culture relies on wild seedlings.
In terms of engineering manufacturing, Zhuhai Cloud, the world’s first scientific research ship with remote control and autonomous navigation in open waters, was launched; The world’s largest typhoon-resistant semi-direct drive offshore unit — — The MySE12MW unit is officially off the production line, which is suitable for 98% of the country’s sea areas; Haiji-1, the first deepwater jacket in Asia designed and built by China, was officially put into production, which filled many technical gaps in the design and construction of super-large deepwater jackets in China.
The application of 5G network extends to the sea, serving the safe production of fishing boats and the innovation of application scenarios such as offshore pasture, mariculture, transportation and offshore wind power industry. The digital fishing boat system consisting of 5G, cloud computing, Internet of Things and "GPS+ Beidou positioning" has been successfully developed, effectively improving the management level of fishery safety production; Yantian Port in Shenzhen has realized the normal commercialization of the first remote-controlled tire crane with front-mounted 5G equipment in South China, and achieved new results in the innovative application of "5G+ Smart Port"; Complete the 5G contiguous coverage of Shantou Zhongpeng No.2 offshore wind farm, Datang Nan ‘ao Lemen offshore wind farm and Wailuo wind farm.
At present, from the seabed, the sea surface to the coast, a huge ship full of high-level innovation achievements of self-reliance and self-improvement sails for deep blue, promoting development with scientific and technological innovation, and laying a solid foundation for the development of Guangdong’s marine economy.
"Blue Friends Circle" gathers harmony.
Yantian Port in Shenzhen
An ocean-going freighter gathers at the anchorage, waiting for pilotage; Tens of thousands of containers made in Guangdong are waiting to go out to sea in the yard of the nearby port area … … This is a busy working scene in Shenzhen Port.
According to the Statistical Bulletin of China’s Marine Economy in 2022 issued by the Ministry of Natural Resources, in 2022, the cumulative container throughput of Shenzhen Port, located in Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area Port Group, reached 30,035,600 TEUs, up 4.39% year-on-year, making it the fourth port in the world with an annual throughput exceeding 30 million TEUs.
Shenzhen Port has innovated the modes of sea-rail combined transport and barge to facilitate green transportation, extending the function of international hub port to a wider inland hinterland, allowing more enterprises to enjoy the seamless connection of "the port is at the factory gate".
As an important channel connecting domestic and overseas markets, Guangdong is constantly building a larger "blue partnership" ecosystem. In the ten years since the "One Belt, One Road" initiative was jointly established, countless tens of thousands of tons of ships have set sail from major ports in Guangdong, breaking waves, building a deep blue dream and continuously expanding new space for opening up and cooperation.
Late at night, the pier of Nansha Port in Guangzhou is still brightly lit, with bridge cranes dancing and trucks shuttling. On the surface of the sea, the huge ship kept coming and going, and the long and loud whistle sounded, and it was tightly wrapped by the night and disappeared in the vast sea.
The "horseshoe disease" of sea-rail combined transport. On September 23rd, in the north of Guangzhou, an X8120 China-Europe train loaded with 110 TEUs of domestic new energy vehicles started from Guangzhou International Port and went to build a "Belt and Road" country. It is reported that in the first nine months of this year, Guangzhou Customs supervised the shipment of seven new energy vehicles in China and Europe, with a total of 480 new energy vehicles with a value of more than 96.44 million yuan.
In the past seven years, the number of trains between China and Europe in Guangzhou has steadily increased, and the "circle of friends" has become larger and larger. In terms of operating routes, there was only one export route seven years ago, and now there are 20 routes of "14 out and 6 in", weaving a large international logistics network covering Eurasia.
Guangdong is opening its arms, and the logistics chain of shipping and railway is deeply integrated. Together with the countries that jointly built the "Belt and Road", we will work together to draw a new picture of development and prosperity on the "New Silk Road".
Ports not only play a "channel role" in foreign trade, but now, the industrial agglomeration effect of Guangdong’s port is becoming more and more prominent. Big cities see big ports. At present, it has become a consensus to strengthen the nautical chart, and coastal cities in Guangdong pay more and more attention to the deep integration and development of "Hong Kong-produced cities". In the Shenzhen-Shantou Cooperation Zone, the "Hong Kong production city" model promotes the strong alliance between BYD and Shenzhen Port and accelerates the "going out to sea" of domestic new energy vehicles. The "Greater Bay Area Combined Port" model pioneered by Shenzhen in China has now opened 30 lines, covering nearly 90% of cities in Greater Bay Area, which has helped Greater Bay Area’s industrial chain and supply chain to be smooth and stable, and also promoted the status of Shenzhen Port as an international transit port and a global hub port.
Marina bay New District of Dongguan gives full play to its policy, location, transportation advantages and strong economic hinterland strength, strengthens the linkage and integration development with Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Hong Kong, gathers world-class marine resources, and successfully introduces major leading industrial projects such as OPPO intelligent manufacturing center and vivo intelligent terminal headquarters.
Dongguan Binhaiwan Bridge
In Huizhou Daya Bay Petrochemical Zone, 13 Fortune 500 companies such as ExxonMobil and China Shipping Shell have gathered, and 65 chemical companies from more than 20 countries and regions have taken root and cooperated here to build a world-class green petrochemical industry highland.
In Shanwei Red Bay Port, the port and shipping logistics industry gathers strength to build industrial clusters such as grain storage and transportation, feed processing and food manufacturing. At the same time, Shanwei City is actively establishing a comprehensive pilot zone for cross-border e-commerce, and establishing a public service platform integrating "customs inspection, foreign exchange, taxation and finance" to provide one-stop and one-card services for cross-border e-commerce enterprises; Actively declare the establishment of Shanwei Comprehensive Bonded Zone, and strive to attract a number of leading, leading and core competitive projects to settle in the construction and operation of the comprehensive bonded zone. From "hard" foundation to "soft" strength, we will further expand the "ecological circle" of the industrial chain and promote the development of Shanwei’s marine economy to a new level.
Walk together inside and outside, and live in harmony. The ocean is a "big channel" and a "nourishing place" for economic exchange and cultural mutual learning. It is a pragmatic gene engraved in the bones of Guangdong people, and it is also the password of Guangdong’s economic development.
Chief planner: Hou Xiaojun
Overall coordinator: Jin Qiang Zhang Chunqing
Planning: lin li Zhu Jing Yuan Peiru
Written by Chen Weifeng
Executive Bank: Su Ruoqian, Han Wei, Zeng Wenyu, Ou Wenheng, Liu Yuqian and Zhang Hanqing
Video planning: Su Ruoqian
Video clip: Li Jiangrui and Zhang Qida
Visual Design: Yang Chenyue and Wang Wanying
Proofreading: Lai Yuqing
Intern: Zhang Guowei.