Guangdong will build a land-sea integrated "one core, two poles, three belts, four districts" spatial layout——
Hundreds of billions of marine industry clusters are poised to take off
Our reporter Pang Caixia
On December 14, 2021, the "14th Five-Year Plan for Marine Economic Development in Guangdong Province" was officially issued.
By 2025, Guangdong will achieve an average annual growth of 6.5% in its gross marine production, and its gross marine production will continue to rank first in the country.
At the same time, 10 high-quality development demonstration zones of the marine economy will be built, and 5 marine industry clusters with a value of more than 100 billion yuan will be built.
Guangdong is a large maritime province with vast sea areas, which are 2.3 times the land area.
In 2020, Guangdong's marine gross product reached 1.72 trillion yuan, ranking first in the country for 26 consecutive years, accounting for about one-fifth of the country's gross marine product.
How will Guangdong's marine economy continue to develop in the next five years?
Qu Jiashu, deputy director of the Guangdong Provincial Department of Natural Resources and director of the Provincial Oceanic Administration, said that in order to strengthen Guangdong's response to the regional development pattern of "one core, one belt, one district", Guangdong will build a land-sea integration during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period. The marine economic spatial layout of "one core, two poles, three belts and four regions".
"One core" refers to improving the development level of the core area of the Pearl River Delta; "two poles" refers to speeding up the development of the marine economy on the east and west flanks with Shantou and Zhanjiang as the poles; "three belts" refers to the coordinated development of the coastal zone, offshore waters and deep-sea waters. Protection and development zone; "Four Zones" refer to the four types of high-quality development demonstration zones for marine economy, which are focused on building high-end marine industrial agglomeration, leading marine technology innovation, marine economic cooperation in the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, and marine ecological civilization construction.
"Guangdong will continue to strengthen the industrial support of the coastal economic belt, improve the accessibility of the coastal economic belt and the Pearl River Delta region, focus on creating new growth poles on the east and west wings, and build the coastal economic belt into the main battlefield of Guangdong's development in the new era." Guangdong Provincial Development and Reform Commission II Senior Inspector Su Weiguang said.
In June 2021, the 400,000-ton ship "Ore Zhanjiang" safely docked at Zhanjiang Port.
Zhanjiang Port has become the first world-class deep-water port in South China that successfully berthed 400,000-ton ships.
As one of the first national marine economic innovation and development demonstration cities and national marine economic development demonstration areas, Zhanjiang is accelerating the promotion of high-quality development of marine economy and becoming the growth pole of the western coastal economic belt.
According to Chen Junhua, Deputy Mayor of Zhanjiang City, relying on Zhanjiang Iron and Steel and other four major port-side industrial projects with an investment of more than 10 billion US dollars, Zhanjiang is speeding up its plans to build a large-scale industrial cluster in Zhanjiang and build 13 modern port-side industry clusters such as green steel. .
"Guangdong has a large marine economy and a complete range of marine industries, but the overall structure of the marine economy is still dominated by traditional marine industries." Qu Jiashu said that in 2020, the three traditional industries of coastal tourism, marine transportation, and marine fishery will increase The value added accounts for 83% of the added value of the province's 12 major marine industries, and the emerging industries are still in the cultivation stage.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong will focus on building a marine industry cluster, focusing on accelerating the development of marine emerging industries and improving the quality and efficiency of traditional marine advantageous industries.
Cultivate and strengthen seven major marine emerging industries, including offshore wind power, marine engineering equipment, marine biomedicine, and natural gas hydrate, and promote the transformation and upgrading of four traditionally advantageous marine industries, including marine oil and gas chemicals, marine ships, marine transportation, and marine fisheries.
At the same time, focus on cultivating a group of leading marine enterprises to build five marine industrial clusters with a value of more than 100 billion in offshore wind power, marine oil and gas chemical industry, marine engineering equipment, marine tourism and modern marine fishery.
In the first half of 2021, the world's first typhoon-resistant floating offshore wind turbine was assembled and tested at the Yangjiang Offshore Wind Power Industry Base, marking a new breakthrough in key technologies for floating offshore wind power in my country.
At present, in the Yangjiang sea area, a total of 10 million kilowatts of offshore wind power projects have been approved, of which 3.5 million kilowatts are under full construction.
In the future, Guangdong will promote the combination of offshore wind power project development with marine ranching, offshore hydrogen production, sightseeing and tourism, and marine comprehensive test sites, and strive to achieve a cumulative installed capacity of 18 million kilowatts by the end of 2025, and promote the development of offshore wind power industry clusters.
Taking the creation of marine industry clusters as the starting point, Guangdong will build a modern marine industry system with international competitiveness and build a new pillar of Guangdong's industrial system.
During the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Guangdong will also accelerate the development of the blue financial industry.
Qualified banking financial institutions are encouraged to set up marine financial departments to carry out mortgage loans and pledge loans for the right to use sea areas and uninhabited islands, ships under construction and ocean-going ships.
In the open Nansha port wharf, 10,000-ton giant ships are shuttled; the wind turbines of the Pearl Bay Offshore Wind Farm on Nanpeng Island, Yangjiang stand majestically, and the blades rotate with the wind; on the east island of Zhanjiang, steel flowers are flying in Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Base, and various cold and hot rolling production lines Day and night... From the Pearl River Delta to the east and west of Guangdong, a picture of forging ahead towards the sea is being drawn.