China News Service, Fuzhou, January 23 (Reporter Yan Xu) At the end of the year and the beginning of the year, the first (set) of the deep-sea aquaculture equipment leasing pilot in Fujian Province - "Mintou No. 1", the offshore Fuzhou "one million tons" marine fish farming platform The construction of MW909-2# has been started successively, towards a new journey of building a "maritime pasture".

  With over 3,300 kilometers of coastline and abundant marine resources, Fujian has unique advantages in developing the marine economy.

In the past year, the province has made efforts to expand the "Fujian at Sea", with a gross marine product exceeding 1.1 trillion yuan (RMB, the same below), continuing to maintain its top position in China.

The marine economy has become an important engine and a new growth point driving Fujian's economic growth.

  At the Fujian Two Sessions being held in Fuzhou, Zhao Long, Acting Governor of the Fujian Provincial People's Government, said that Fujian should focus on four articles on digital economy, marine economy, green economy, and cultural tourism economy, and cultivate new economic momentum from a high starting point.

  Fujian will focus on expanding new space for the marine economy, deeply implement the three-year action for high-quality development of the marine economy, accelerate the construction of Fuzhou and Xiamen National Marine Economic Development Demonstration Zones, expand and strengthen Fuzhou National Oceanic Fishery Base, Putian National Marine Ranch, and support development. Offshore wind power, seabed oil storage, marine information, marine engineering equipment, marine biomedicine and other industries, build a national offshore wind power research and testing base, and realize a marine production value of more than 1.2 trillion yuan.

  "Building the Fujian-ASEAN Eastern Growth Area Marine Cooperation Corridor and promoting the great development of the marine economy", the Fujian Provincial Committee of Zhi Gong Party suggested at the fifth meeting of the 12th Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference.

  The Eastern ASEAN Growth Area is a sub-regional cooperation initiative initiated by the four ASEAN countries including Brunei, Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines.

After investigation, the Fujian Provincial Committee of Zhigong Party believes that Fujian should show greater achievements in serving the construction of the "Belt and Road" and the new pattern of China-ASEAN sub-regional cooperation.

  "Referring to the China-Indonesia 'two countries and two parks' model, in Quanzhou, Zhangzhou, Mindanao in the Philippines, and eastern Malaysia, with the leading enterprises of overseas Chinese and private enterprises in Fujian Province as the driving force, we will build China-Philippines, China-Malaysia' two countries. "Shuangyuan'." The Fujian Provincial Committee of the Zhi Gong Party suggested to promote cooperation in marine shipping, marine tourism, marine biological resource protection, seafood processing, and cold chain transportation.

  The Fujian Provincial Committee of Zhi Gong Party also suggested to promote the cooperation between the Putian Mazu cultural brand and the Eastern ASEAN Growth Area in marine tourism; "Ocean Community of Shared Future".

  Wu Chongbo, member of the Standing Committee of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference and deputy dean of the School of International Relations of Xiamen University, suggested that the construction of the "China-ASEAN Seafood Industry Cooperation and Trading Platform" in Fujian Province should be promoted to provide fast sea transportation for seafood import and export trade.

  The five BRICS countries including Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa are all maritime countries. Li Jinsuan, member of the Fujian Provincial Political Consultative Conference and full-time vice-chairman of the Fujian Provincial Committee of the Jiusan Society, suggested that Fujian and the BRICS countries strengthen maritime innovation cooperation.

  Xiamen is accelerating the construction of the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Base.

Li Jinsuan believes that this platform can be used to carry out policy coordination, personnel training, and project development cooperation in the marine field.

"Priority can be given to areas of multilateral interest such as seabed mining and protection, ocean carbon neutrality, marine satellite remote sensing and big data, Arctic waterways, coastal zone protection and planning, and marine industry collaboration."

  He also suggested that relying on the School of Oceanography and Earth of Xiamen University and other institutes, cultivate skilled talents with international standardization awareness, cutting-edge technology knowledge structure and cross-cultural communication; relying on the BRICS New Industrial Revolution Partnership Innovation Base, try to cooperate Carry out academic education at the junior, undergraduate, master, and doctoral levels of marine majors, and cultivate marine talents.

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