They deeply cultivated the front line of China's polar exploration, and painted a glorious shipping route of nearly 40,6 nautical miles between the two poles of the earth; They are located on isolated islands in the sea, and they choose to stick to protect the safety of the motherland's Xisha Sea and Air; They bravely dived 8,2022 meters to carry people to dive, to ride dragons to the sea, and to dream of deep blue... On June 8, on the occasion of World Oceans Day and National Ocean Awareness Day, the Ministry of Natural Resources held a main event in Shantou, Guangdong Province, to announce the results of the <> "Ocean People" selection, including <> individuals and two collectives. They are guards, sentinels, and heroes, guarding the blue land of the motherland.

Perseverance is the undertone

From joining the "Xuelong" in 2004 until becoming the captain, Zhao Yanping has always been the most determined member of the team. He successively served as the captain of China's polar research icebreakers "Xuelong" and "Xuelong 2", participating in 12 Antarctic expeditions and 3 Arctic expeditions; He bravely stood at the head of the tide, gave full play to his technical expertise, participated in the construction of the heavy weapon of a major country, China's polar icebreaker - "Xuelong 2", and witnessed and participated in the leapfrog development of China's polar exploration cause.

From being a sailor to serving as a captain, Zhao Yanping has always rushed to the front line. Undaunted by stormy seas, he always stuck to the front line of polar investigation, he said: "It is the belief in loving the party and the country and the love for the polar cause that support me and the crew to ride the wind and waves and travel steadily and far." ”

"Perseverance" is also Qiu Hua's key word. "Since you have chosen to become a soldier, you cannot be afraid of hardship." Since the recruits were assigned to Xisha to the present, the 44-year-old Qiu Hua has been stationed on the island for 24 years, becoming the longest "island age" soldier in Xisha Island. In 2011 and 2019, his family twice persuaded him to change jobs, but whenever faced with the choice to stay, he always chose to stay in the army again and again with deep feelings for Xisha and reluctance to wear this military uniform. Over the years, he has competed in various competitions and is now a Second Class Sergeant Major in the Navy. He has always fulfilled the vow he made when he went to the island: to strive to be a "sentinel of the end of the world".

Hu Jian, captain of the diving team of the salvage engineering fleet of the Shanghai Salvage Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, also interpreted the meaning of "perseverance". He has been engaged in the salvage cause for more than 20 years, has been rooted in the front line for a long time, participated in more than 300 water emergency rescue and rescue missions, and made significant contributions to ensuring the safety of national water life and property and marine environment; He actively participated in the development of saturation diving in China, constantly challenged the limits of the deep sea, and witnessed and implemented two milestone projects: China's first 500-meter saturation diving test and China's first <>-meter saturation diving land-based manned experiment. Diving into the deep blue and facing life and death, he said: "The supremacy of the people is my mission as a traffic salvator. ”

Innovation writes loyalty

In China's twenty-year journey of manned deep diving, Ye Cong is a resounding name. He successively served as the chief designer and chief submariner of the "Jiaolong" manned submersible; Deputy Chief Designer of the "Deep Sea Warrior" manned submersible; Chief designer of the "Huandao Jiaolong" passenger submersible; Chief designer and commander of the sea trial of the "Striver" manned submersible; Expert of ISO Submersible Working Group to compile national and international standards for submersibles.

Unforgettablely, as the first manned deep diving master pilot in China, Ye Cong carried out 51 missions of 38 dives in the sea trial stage of the "Jiaolong", and the maximum dive depth exceeded 7000,<> meters twice. Today, as a member of the Party Committee and deputy director of the China Ship Science Research Center, Ye Cong continues to lead the manned deep diving team from "deep sea entry" to "deep sea exploration" and "deep sea development".

On June 2021, 6, China's first self-operated ultra-deepwater atmospheric field "Shenhai No. 25" was officially put into operation – an important milestone in the history of China's offshore oil industry. In the "steel city" of "Shenhai No. <>", there is a "commander" who also has an iron will, Hou Jing, who has participated in and witnessed the leaps and bounds of China's offshore oil and gas development.

As the chief engineer of offshore pipe structure of CNOOC Research Institute Co., Ltd. and the manager of the deepwater pipeline and cable department of the "Shenhai No. 25" atmospheric field development project, Hou Jing has been deeply engaged in the design and construction of submarine pipelines for 1500 years, leading the team to overcome technical problems such as ultra-deep water, high temperature and high pressure development, and effectively promoted China's offshore oil development to <> meters of ultra-deep water. She said: "Taking key core technologies into your own hands and achieving autonomy and control is the 'great master of the country' in the new era." ”

This is also the belief of Jiao Nianzhi, academician of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and chair professor of the School of Ocean and Earth of Xiamen University, who is committed to innovation. For more than 30 years, he has been innovating in the direction of microorganisms and ocean carbon sinks, deeply exploring the "invisible giants" of the ocean - microorganisms and their role in marine ecology and global climate change. "Ocean carbon sink is a business that requires long-term development, and research and development of marine carbon sink, cultivation of carbon sink talents, and support the national carbon neutrality goal are the mission and task shouldered by marine people." He said.

Dedication to Azure

It is necessary to build a maritime power, safeguard maritime rights and interests, develop the marine economy and disseminate marine culture.

Yan Zhengping, captain of COSCO SHIPPING Crew Management Co., Ltd. Shanghai Branch, has served as the captain of a new super-large container ship 36 times, setting a precedent for Chinese driving a Chinese-made ultra-large container ship. Decades have been sticking to the front line of the shipping industry, and Yan Zhengping has adhered to his shipping dream of serving the country. He often hangs on his lips with the phrase "I am a brick, and I can move it wherever I need it." That's what he said and that's what he did.

For Li Changqing, secretary of the party committee and director of the neighborhood committee of Qingyutan Community, Xunshan Street, Rongcheng City, Shandong Province, it is his mission to rejuvenate the sea with science and technology and vigorously develop the modern marine aquaculture industry. After taking office in 2003, Li Changqing insisted on taking party building as the guide, promoting development with innovation, and taking common prosperity as his own responsibility, and blazed a new path of "enterprise efficiency and fishermen getting rich". After more than ten years of dedicated operation, Xunshan Group Co., Ltd., with him as the secretary of the party committee and chairman of the board, has developed into a national key leading enterprise in agricultural industrialization with marine seed industry, breeding and processing as the leading industry and total assets of more than 25.10 billion yuan, and has built <>,<> mu of ecological marine ranching locally, becoming an important domestic "marine granary" base and a new business card of Rongcheng coastal tourism.

In the 2022 "People of the Sea", two groups stand out. The Department of Border and Maritime Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs is responsible for safeguarding China's territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests in the surrounding seas, promoting the management of contradictions and differences with neighboring maritime neighbors, carrying out practical cooperation, and conducting diplomatic negotiations on maritime delimitation and joint development. These tasks are not only related to the major interests of the country, but also to regional peace and stability. Over the years, based on its own functions, the Department has actively carried out peripheral sea-related diplomatic work, firmly safeguarded national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests, and effectively maintained China's relations with relevant countries and the stability of surrounding maritime areas, and cooperated with relevant departments to actively promote the diversification and high-quality development of China's maritime undertakings and maritime economy.

Since 2001, Ocean University of China has participated in the China Youth Volunteer Poverty Alleviation Relay Program and established a postgraduate teaching group. As of 2022, a total of 21 volunteer groups have been sent to Guizhou, Tibet, Yunnan and other places, with a total of 295 volunteers, continuing to strive to support teaching and helping in the western region. They carried out a series of marine characteristic activities in the Yunnan-Guishan District and ten schools in three provinces of the Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, moved the school's marine education resources from online to the western mountainous area offline, carried out science popularization, integrated the achievements of marine development in the eastern region into the characteristic cultural education of the western provinces, carried out marine ideology and politics, and enhanced the educational appeal through novel and diverse activities. These young people have thus become ambassadors of marine culture education, opening a window for students in the western region to face the sea.

(Reporter Yang Shu)