Technological innovation empowers marine industry
"One seaweed makes a big health industry." In the exhibition hall of Qingdao Mingyue Seaweed Health Group, noodles, chips, beverages and other foods, skin care products, medical dressings, and biological fertilizers made of seaweed as raw materials are dazzling.
The company’s executive vice president Li Kechang proudly said: “By extracting active substances and performing intensive processing, seaweeds that spread across the ocean like grass on land become treasures.”
This is a vivid epitome of the marine industry empowered by technological innovation in Qingdao West Coast New Area.
Living by the sea and prospering from the sea, as a state-level new district with managing the ocean as one of its major missions, Qingdao West Coast New District has actively introduced and gathered first-class marine scientific research institutions, talents and elements in recent years, and has built a business-oriented, The market-oriented, marine technology innovation system with deep integration of "government, industry, university and research" focuses on cultivating new "blue" kinetic energy and accelerating the development of the marine economy.
Sun Yonghong, member of the Standing Committee of Qingdao Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the West Coast New Area Working Committee, introduced that the West Coast New Area has formulated a three-year action plan for the breakthrough and development of the marine industry, and introduced 16 strong support policies for the marine industry to strengthen the chain and replenish the chain. A strategic marine battle has begun on the shores of the Yellow Sea. .
The new campus of the Ocean School of the University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, which is located in the West Coast New District, has just completed a beautiful garden. The preparations for the establishment of the two years have made great achievements. At present, more than 300 marine scientific research results from 13 co-construction units have been sorted out and connected with enterprises. Work is in full swing.
"Cracking the code of marine life will better benefit mankind." Liu Shanshan, the young and capable executive dean of the Qingdao Huada Genetics Research Institute, summed up their work in one sentence, "We are working hard to address the development, evolution, active substances, and biodiversity of marine life. We are striving to produce scientific research results and new technologies and industries with international influence."
The ship’s dynamic positioning system, known as the "skilled ship", fills the gaps in the domestic field; the crankshaft of a large marine diesel engine is like the "heart of the ship", with my country’s independent intellectual property rights... In the Qingdao Ship Science and Technology Park of Harbin Engineering University, one Another high-precision scientific research achievement is accelerating industrialization.
Six years ago, it was still a wasteland beach. Today, 24 key common technologies for marine equipment, including marine information detection, ship intelligent equipment, and vibration and noise control, are open research centers, 17 innovation and entrepreneurship platforms at all levels, and 600 A number of scientific research and technical personnel and 155 technology-based enterprises gather here.
“Introducing a group of experts and talents and breaking through a key technology can stimulate an industry.” said Liu Wei, a member of the working committee and deputy director of the management committee of the Guzhenkou core area of the National (Qingdao) Convergence Innovation Demonstration Zone. The core area goes from research and development to incubation. , Industrialization of the whole chain of integrated services, has formed an industrial agglomeration effect centering on high-tech ships, marine information, marine equipment, marine new materials, etc.
By the Haixi Bay, gantry cranes tower high into the clouds, and the offshore equipment under construction is huge, like a "big Mac".
Offshore Oil Engineering (Qingdao) Co., Ltd. relies on independent research and development and innovation, and has won many of the world's best offshore oil engineering equipment. At the end of last year, the world's largest tonnage offshore floating production, storage and offloading device was officially delivered to Brazilian customers.
"While we are doing a good job of preventing and controlling the epidemic this year, we are all on duty, producing at full capacity, and orders have been scheduled to the end of 2021!" The company's marketing manager Ji Guangguang is full of confidence.
Looking at the entire West Coast New Area, ocean technology innovation is blowing strongly from the east, and blue new kinetic energy is surging: The gross ocean production value of the entire region has doubled from 49.1 billion yuan in 2013 to 130.25 billion yuan in 2019, achieving an average annual growth rate of 17.6 %; The proportion of marine production in the regional GDP increased from 21.8% to 36.6%.
Wang Qingxian, member of the Standing Committee of the Shandong Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Qingdao Municipal Party Committee, said that it is necessary to thoroughly implement the spirit of General Secretary Jinping’s important instructions on managing the ocean, strengthen the marine innovation chain, complement the marine industry chain, enhance the marine value chain, coordinate land and sea, and map to the sea. And strive to make new and greater contributions to the building of a maritime power.
"People's Daily" (October 07, 2020 01 Edition)