In the first half of the year, under the strong leadership of the Party Central Committee with Comrade Xi Jinping as the core, coastal areas and maritime departments conscientiously implemented the decisions and deployments of the Party Central Committee and the State Council, insisted on seeking progress while maintaining stability, promoting stability through progress, and breaking down first. Macroeconomic policies in the marine field have accelerated the cultivation and development of new marine productivity, the ability of scientific and technological innovation has been continuously enhanced, and marine foreign trade has rebounded for the better. According to preliminary calculations, the gross marine product in the first half of the year was 4.9 trillion billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.6, which was 0.6 percentage points higher than the growth rate of GDP. The marine economy continued to develop rapidly.

The development trend of marine industry is good, and the construction of modern marine industry system is accelerated.

The transformation and upgrading of traditional marine industries are progressing steadily. In the context of the continued activity of the global new shipbuilding market, my country's marine shipbuilding industry has a strong growth momentum by taking advantage of its competitive advantages. Among the 18 major ship types in the world, a total of 14 new orders for ship types rank first in the world. China's ship type research and development and design capabilities have been continuously improved. In the first half of the year, China launched a variety of green and environmentally friendly new ship types such as methanol dual-fuel power 64500-ton bulk carrier and hydrogen fuel power reserved Afra oil tanker, and obtained the principle recognition certificate of the International Classification Society. These forward-looking ship types use methanol, ammonia and hydrogen as the main power, covering all ship types, laying a good foundation for China's shipping enterprises to receive orders in the future. Marine tourism has entered a new cycle of prosperity and development, and the supply and demand of the tourism market are booming. In the first half of the year, marine passenger turnover and marine passenger traffic increased by 9.0 and 5.4 respectively. With the intensive introduction of a series of cruise economic support policies, the cruise economy has accelerated its recovery. In the first half of the year, a total of 23 cruise ships operated 206 voyages, and the cruise passenger traffic volume was nearly 500000.

Marine emerging industries continue to grow. The offshore engineering equipment manufacturing industry accelerated its recovery. In the first half of the year, China's shipbuilding enterprises obtained a number of super large orders, and the amount of new orders accepted by offshore workers was three times that of the same period last year. Marine engineering equipment has continuously made new breakthroughs in marine oil and gas, marine clean energy, and marine fisheries. The cylindrical floating production, storage and unloading device "Haikui 1" has been installed at sea, the large-scale offshore wind power multifunctional operation and maintenance mother ship "Fenghua 23" has been officially delivered, the world's first 18 MW offshore wind turbine independently developed by China has been successfully hoisted, and the far-reaching marine aquaculture cage equipment "dark blue 2" has been completed on land. The marine pharmaceutical and biological products industry has developed steadily, and the research and development of marine drugs has progressed in an orderly manner. With the maintenance of blood lipid health level and enhance immunity of dual-effect krill oil new products released, immune anti-tumor marine class I new drug "BG136 for injection" successfully completed the first phase of clinical trials, "blue drug library" development plan project anti-hepatitis B virus new drug LY102 clinical access.

The guarantee of marine resource elements continues to be strengthened to help high-quality development move forward steadily.

The guarantee of marine resources has been continuously strengthened. In the first half of the year, the approved sea area nationwide increased by 16.9 year-on-year, and the investment involved in the project exceeded 500 billion yuan. In order to promote the economical and intensive use of sea resources, efficient and orderly allocation, coastal areas actively explore new ways of sea management, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province, carried out online trading of sea area use rights, relying on Zhejiang Province's natural resources intelligent trading service platform to complete the first transfer of sea area use rights. In terms of industrial sea use, in order to further optimize the management of aquaculture sea use, Guangdong Province issued the "Guidelines for Sea Use Application for Modern Marine Ranch Projects in Guangdong Province", and Zhejiang Province issued the "Implementation Plan for Optimizing Aquaculture Sea Management in Zhejiang Province".

The supply of marine energy, food and water resources increased steadily. The situation of offshore oil and gas production is good, and the supply of offshore wind power is stable and orderly. In the first half of the year, the second adjustment project of "Lvda 5-2" oilfield in Bohai Oilfield and the development project of Enping 21-4 oilfield were put into operation one after another. Suizhong 36-1 oilfield, the largest offshore oil field in China, produced more than 0.1 billion tons of crude oil, the output of marine crude oil and natural gas increased by 5.6 and 10.5 respectively, and the offshore wind power generation increased by 26.4. The construction of "blue granary" continued to advance, and the supply of high-quality seafood increased steadily. In the first half of the year, the world's first floating wind-fishing integration project "National Energy Sharing" platform was put into operation, and the far-reaching marine aquaculture equipment "Jinghai No. 7" and salmon land-based circulating aquaculture successfully produced fish. China's marine aquaculture production increased by more than 5% year-on-year. The large-scale utilization of seawater desalination has been steadily advancing, helping to improve the multi-water supply system. The fourth production line of the first phase of the seawater desalination and comprehensive utilization integration (300000 tons demonstration) project in Tianjin Nangang Industrial Zone has been successfully debugged, and the project has the water supply conditions of 120000 tons of seawater per day.

Enterprise development and expectations are improving, and the vitality of technological innovation is stimulated.

The production and operation of enterprises is stable and good. In order to understand the production and operation of my country's sea-related enterprises in the first half of the year, the existing difficulties and policy demands, we conducted online questionnaire surveys and written surveys for some sea-related enterprises. The results of the questionnaire survey show that it mainly benefited from the expansion of business scope, market demand and the improvement of enterprise technology. In the first half of the year, 54.5 and 52.4 of the company's operating income and operating profit achieved year-on-year growth. Among them, the operating income and operating income of marine emerging industries The proportion of enterprises whose profits achieved year-on-year growth was 2.5 percentage points higher, and the new momentum of the marine economy accelerated growth.

The vitality of enterprise technological innovation continues to be stimulated. The results of the questionnaire survey show that 68.6 per cent and 70.4 per cent of enterprises achieved year-on-year growth in R & D spending and the number of personnel in the first half of the year, of which more than 80 per cent of marine power enterprises achieved both growth in R & D spending and the number of R & D personnel. Enterprises mainly improve their innovation ability by improving the construction and management level of scientific and technological talents, increasing R & D investment, establishing incentive mechanism, and encouraging employees to actively innovate, but they still face challenges such as talent shortage, insufficient funds and technical problems.

Business expectations are good and policy demands are concentrated. The results of the questionnaire survey show that over 70% of enterprises expect their operating income to increase in the second half of the year, over 90% of enterprises expect the average number of employees to increase or remain stable in the second half of the year, and over 80% of enterprises maintain a general or optimistic attitude towards the market prospects. Enterprises with good development expectations are mainly concentrated in the marine shipbuilding industry, marine power industry and marine engineering equipment manufacturing industry. Nearly 60% of enterprises want the government to introduce tax relief, loan interest relief, loan repayment delay and other support policies.

Deep integration of industry, university and research, digital intelligence to accelerate innovation

The deep integration of production, learning and research helps the high-quality development of the marine industry. Coastal areas are committed to creating an innovative mechanism aimed at industrialization and shaping the marine industry ecology with marketization as the core. Established Zhejiang Marine Industry Science and Technology Innovation Research Center, Guangxi Marine Engineering Equipment Industry Innovation Center, Zhejiang Offshore Wind Power Industry Alliance, Qingdao Bio-Manufacturing Industry Alliance, Qingdao Blue Seed Industry Research Institute, Guangdong Modern Marine Ranch Innovation Demonstration Base, etc. A series of marine technology innovation platforms promote the construction of marine innovation capabilities, lead the construction of modern marine industry system with technological innovation, and accelerate the cultivation and development of new marine productivity, to help the development and growth of emerging marine industries and the transformation and upgrading of traditional marine industries.

Digital intelligence research accelerates the innovative development of marine economy. The application scenarios of marine digital intelligence are constantly enriched, enabling the development of new marine productivity. In the field of marine fishery, the tuna intelligent fishing forecast system-Haiying AI was released, and the fishery model Fan Li model was 1.0 released. In the field of marine oil and gas, the installation of Huizhou 26-6, an offshore intelligent drilling platform, was completed, the "smart factory" of offshore oil and gas completion tools was completed and put into operation, and the "intelligent monitoring system for key equipment of offshore drilling platforms" of COSCO was put into operation. In the marine field, DMS 5.0, "Elephant Group" series of intelligent painting robots are officially "on duty". In the field of marine exploration, Beidou's water intelligent perception early warning system was put into operation, the digital intelligent marine survey test platform "Zhongnan Yuan 520" was delivered, and the intelligent software bionic fish "Wen Ray" came out.

The positive trend of marine foreign trade has been further consolidated, and the construction of ports and routes has been continuously improved.

Marine foreign trade overall continued to pick up. Under the influence of a series of positive factors, such as the recovery of external demand and the continuous effectiveness of the "combination fist" of foreign trade policy, seaborne trade has shown strong resilience. In the first half of the year, the total volume of seaborne imports and exports increased by 2.1 year-on-year, 1.4 percentage points higher than that in the first quarter, and the trend of seaborne trade gradually improved. Some of the advantages related to the rapid growth of seafood exports, a strong support for the recovery of marine foreign trade. Affected by factors such as the peak period of global ship exchange and the green and low-carbon transformation of ships, the export of ship products has increased significantly, and the export value has increased by 91.1 year-on-year; the export scale of wind turbines and parts has continued to expand, and the export value has increased by 32.3 year-on-year.

The pace of intelligent and green construction of coastal ports has been accelerated. In the first half of the year, seven large-scale automated terminals were added to China's ports, and the number of automated terminals built and under construction continued to rank first in the world. Among them, the container terminal in Luojing Port Area of Shanghai Port has completed the transformation of a new generation of automated container terminals, the intelligent upgrading of the whole process equipment of Zhoushan Shulanghu Ore Transfer Terminal has been completed, the berths 8 and 9 in Jiangyin Port Area of Fuzhou Port have been transformed into zero-emission and all-electric docks, the first phase of the transformation of steel miscellaneous berths in Bayuquan Port Area of Yingkou Port has passed the completion acceptance, and the three traditional Tianjin Port. Shanghai, Shenzhen, Ningbo Zhoushan and other coastal ports have the capacity of LNG filling, Shanghai port Yangshan port area for the first time completed the international container green methanol filling. International trunk container ships and cruise ships have normalized the use of shore power, coastal trunk hub port shore power facilities coverage of more than 90%.

The maritime trade route network has been continuously improved. "Wuhan-Nansha Port-Southeast Asia" rail-sea intermodal transportation line opened, Quanzhou Port opened the first direct shipping route to Indonesia, Xiamen Port added RCEP (Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership Agreement) routes to Japan and Malaysia's East Malaysia respectively, the new land-sea channel "Australia-Zhanjiang-Zunyi" sea-rail intermodal transportation line opened, and Jiangxi Nanchang-Xiamen Port-Saudi Arabia opened a multimodal intermodal transportation channel.

In the first half of the year, with the continuous release of the national macro policy effect and the recovery of external demand, the marine economy continued to develop rapidly. However, it should also be noted that the current external environment is complex, effective domestic demand is still insufficient, and the foundation for the recovery of the marine economy still needs to be consolidated. In the next stage, we must implement the spirit of the 20th National Congress of the Communist Party of China and the First, Second, and Third Plenary Sessions of the 20th Central Committee, fully and accurately implement the new development concept, adhere to the general tone of the work of seeking progress while maintaining stability, and develop new quality productivity in accordance with local conditions. Promote the transformation and upgrading of traditional industries in the marine economy, the development and growth of emerging industries, and the construction of future industrial layout, and strive to promote the high-quality of the marine economy, consolidate and consolidate and strengthen the marine economy.