(The 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, Voice) Deputy Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Director of the State Oceanic Administration: Continue to deepen the key areas of building a strong marine country

  China News Service, Beijing, October 21, title: Vice Minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Director of the State Oceanic Administration: Continue to deepen the key areas of building a marine power

  China News Service reporter Pang Wuji

  The report of the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China put forward the strategic goal of "building a maritime power".

In the past ten years, what breakthroughs has my country made in marine technological innovation, cultivating and expanding emerging marine industries, expanding new space for marine economic development, and participating in global marine governance?

What are the key tasks of building a maritime power under the new situation?

Wang Hong, a representative of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China, member of the party group and deputy minister of the Ministry of Natural Resources, and director of the State Oceanic Administration, answered in an exclusive interview with a reporter from Chinanews.com.

Independent innovation in the marine high-tech field continues to make new breakthroughs

  Chinanews.com reporter: Marine scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental driving force for building a strong marine country.

In the past ten years, could you please introduce what remarkable breakthroughs my country has made in the field of marine science and technology?

  Wang Hong: We continue to dig deep into the key areas of building a maritime power, and strive to promote the transformation of marine science and technology into an innovation-led transformation.

Over the past ten years, independent innovation in deep-water, green, safety and other marine high-tech fields has continuously made new breakthroughs, ranking among the top in the world in many fields.

  The marine exploration and carrying operation technology represented by submersibles such as "Jiaolong", "Deep Sea Warrior", "Striver" and "Haidou" has achieved a qualitative leap, and the localization rate of core components has been greatly improved.

The self-built "Xuelong 2" icebreaker with two-way icebreaking capability fills the gap in the field of major equipment for polar scientific expeditions in my country.

  The ultra-deepwater dual-drill semi-submersible platform "Blue Whale 1" successfully tested combustible ice in the South China Sea.

The world's first semi-submersible wave energy aquaculture platform "Penghu" and full-submersible deep-sea aquaculture equipment "Deep Blue No. 1" were delivered.

The self-designed 3000-ton professional buoy operation vessel was put into use.

Completed my country's first comprehensive global marine survey and achieved a number of breakthrough results.

  Vigorously promote the national global marine stereoscopic observation network project, and basically realize long-term operational observation of the sea areas under our jurisdiction, the Northwest Pacific Ocean, the North Indian Ocean, important strait passages, and the North and South Pole regions.

The "chip" project for ocean forecasting has been implemented, and a new generation of ocean numerical forecasting system with completely independent intellectual property rights has been put into operation.

Four key areas of marine science and technology

  Chinanews.com reporter: Facing the new journey, in the next five years, what areas will my country's marine science and technology focus on?

  Wang Hong: Marine scientific and technological innovation is the fundamental driving force for building a strong marine country, and it is a key factor that runs through the overall situation and plays a decisive role. The key to accelerating the process of marine development and revitalizing the marine economy lies in science and technology.

The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed to implement the strategy of rejuvenating the country through science and education, and made special arrangements for improving the scientific and technological innovation system and accelerating the implementation of the innovation-driven development strategy.

  In the next step, we will focus on optimizing the distribution of national marine scientific research forces and accelerating the realization of high-level marine science and technology self-reliance and self-improvement.

  The first is to strengthen the national scientific and technological strength in the marine field.

Improve the industrial public service platform, and promote the joint construction and operation of Weihai, Zhoushan, Zhuhai and deep-sea national marine comprehensive test sites with the provincial governments of Shandong, Zhejiang, Guangdong and Hainan.

Optimize the layout of major innovation platforms, and strengthen the construction of national laboratories in the marine field, national key laboratories, national technology innovation centers, and national field scientific observation and research stations.

Build a national deep-sea gene bank, a national deep-sea specimen collection and a national deep-sea big data center.

  The second is to focus on breaking through the bottleneck of marine core equipment and key technologies.

Give full play to the advantages of the new national system, and promote the implementation of a number of major marine science and technology projects such as the second phase of "Dragon Exploration of the Sea", the "Deep Sea Mineral Development" major scientific and technological project, the sea area dynamic perception system project, and the marine ecological satellite project.

Focus on breakthroughs in technologies such as new sensors for ocean observation and monitoring, unmanned intelligent platforms, and target detection and identification, and support the pedigree development of equipment such as deep-sea scientific exploration, oil and gas mineral resource exploration, and biological genetic resource exploration and development.

Strengthen the independent design and manufacture of key core components such as ultra-deepwater drilling platforms, ultra-deepwater semi-submersible production platforms, natural gas hydrate development equipment and supporting equipment.

Strengthen the key technologies of marine environmental protection, ecological restoration and major marine disaster response.

  The third is to strengthen the reserve of marine basic, cutting-edge and strategic technologies.

Continue to carry out basic research in marine science and polar science, and strive to achieve original breakthroughs in the directions of marine dynamic processes, land-sea interactions, and changes in marine ecosystems.

Focus on technological frontiers such as ocean space utilization, biotechnology, clean energy and new materials, deploy ocean frontier technologies and disruptive technology research and development in advance, and build strategic technological reserve advantages for future development.

  The fourth is to improve the transfer and transformation of marine scientific and technological achievements.

Promote a better combination of effective markets and promising governments, strengthen intellectual property protection, strengthen market-based services for the transfer and transformation of marine scientific and technological achievements, support the cultivation of sea-related intermediary service agencies and specialized technology trading platforms, and accelerate the industrialization of marine scientific and technological achievements.

Create a group of leading enterprises with strong innovation capabilities and "specialized, specialized and innovative" small and medium-sized enterprises, and promote the establishment of marine industry innovation alliances.

Cultivate new marine industry clusters

  Chinanews.com reporter: In 2021, my country's total marine production will exceed 9 trillion yuan for the first time, especially the growth rate of emerging marine industries will exceed 10%.

In the future, what will be the main focus in cultivating and expanding marine emerging industries?

  Wang Hong: Marine economy is an important part of the national economy, and marine economic activities have been integrated into all aspects of national economic and social development.

In the past ten years, through the demonstration of marine economic innovation and development, the central government has successively invested nearly 9 billion yuan to support the development of marine emerging industries, guide innovation elements to gather in advantageous areas, improve marine science and technology innovation capabilities, and accelerate the industrialization and capitalization of achievements. From 2012 to 2020, the average annual growth rate of the added value of marine emerging industries will reach 14%.

my country's self-developed marine drugs account for nearly 30% of the world's marketed products. The research and development of marine carbohydrate drugs has entered the international advanced ranks, and the world's largest collection of marine microbial resources has been established.

my country's self-developed megawatt-class tidal current energy generating units maintain the world's leading continuous operation time.

The scale of seawater desalination projects reached 1.65 million tons per day, an increase of 114% compared with 2012, which provided an important guarantee for the water resources security of coastal water-scarce cities and islands.

  The report of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China proposed that "the focus of economic development should be placed on the real economy".

The "14th Five-Year Plan for Marine Economic Development" approved by the State Council clearly places the focus of marine economic development on the real economy, builds a competitive modern marine industry system, and especially promotes the vigorous development of marine emerging industries.

In the next step, we will focus on cultivating emerging marine industry clusters and expanding the scale of the industry, and do the following work:

  The first is to improve the level of autonomy in marine equipment manufacturing such as offshore oil and gas, offshore wind power, deep-sea aquaculture, seawater desalination and marine energy development, promote high-end, intelligent, and green industries, and establish an independent, controllable, safe and efficient marine equipment industry system .

  The second is to speed up the intelligent greening of the high-tech shipbuilding industry, promote the research and development and application of high-end products and key system equipment such as large LNG carriers, cruise ships, and ro-ro passenger ships, and make breakthroughs in the independent design and manufacture of special ships such as polar heavy icebreakers and ocean drilling ships.

  The third is to promote the large-scale development of seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization, and conduct pilot projects of seawater desalination scale, equipment and policies in coastal water-scarce cities.

  The fourth is to promote the diversified development and application of marine clean energy, strengthen the development and engineering demonstration of technology and equipment for efficient utilization of marine energy resources, and support the large-scale and commercial development of marine energy.

  The fifth is to speed up the industrialization process of marine drugs and biological products, and promote the construction of public service platforms such as marine drug and biological products industry development centers.

Expand new space for marine economic development

  Chinanews.com reporter: What achievements have we achieved in recent years in expanding new space for the development of marine economy?

  Wang Hong: China advocates adhering to the principles of peace, sovereignty, universal benefits, and co-governance, and forging deep seas, polar regions, outer space, and the Internet into new frontiers for cooperation among all parties.

In recent years, positive progress has been made in the investigation and exploration of deep-sea resources.

The promulgation of the "Law on the Exploration and Development of Resources in Deep Sea Submarine Areas" has taken the "first step" of the rule of law in my country's deep sea.

my country already has 5 exploration mining areas in the international seabed area, covering an area of ​​234,000 square kilometers, becoming the country with the largest number of mining areas and the most complete types of minerals.

  Polar cognition and protection utilization capabilities continue to increase.

Organized and carried out 38 Antarctic expeditions, 12 Arctic Ocean expeditions, and 16 Arctic station-based scientific expeditions. The "two ships and six stations" pattern with the Ross Sea New Station and the Arctic Yellow River Station as the main body.

Actively participated in polar affairs, hosted the 40th Antarctic Treaty Consultative Conference, and released the white papers "China's Arctic Policy" and "China's Antarctic Cause".

China and Russia have cooperated in the investigation and research on the Arctic waterway, and made positive progress in the joint construction of the "Silk Road on Ice".

Deeply participate in and support global ocean governance

  Chinanews.com reporter: In the future, in terms of deeply participating in global ocean governance and actively building a community with a shared future for the ocean, how can we better express the "voice of China"?

  Wang Hong: A community with a shared future for mankind is the enrichment and development of the idea of ​​a community with a shared future for mankind, and it is the concrete practice of the idea of ​​a community with a shared future for mankind in the marine field.

As a developing ocean power, we must comprehensively promote the concept of a community with a shared future for the ocean, and deeply participate in and support global ocean governance.

  Focusing on building blue partnerships, we will carry out all-round, multi-field and in-depth bilateral and multilateral cooperation with coastal countries.

Continue to implement the "One Belt, One Road" Maritime Cooperation Vision, and actively improve the dialogue and cooperation mechanism with countries along the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.

Enrich international marine public service products, and initiate a joint construction and sharing plan for marine public services.

Participate in the United Nations "Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030)" plan.

  Deepen practical cooperation in the areas of marine environmental monitoring, marine scientific research, maritime search and rescue in the South China Sea, and build a China-ASEAN blue economy partnership.

Strengthen the survey and evaluation of deep-sea strategic resources and biodiversity.

Continue to do a good job in Antarctic scientific investigation and protection, build the "Ice Silk Road", participate in pragmatic cooperation in the Arctic, and strengthen the overall coordination and comprehensive security capabilities of polar affairs.

Strengthen situation research and risk prevention, make preparations for legal battles, and resolutely safeguard national maritime rights and interests.

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