Shandong, “half of it is on the sea”!

What color do you think of when you mention Shandong?

Is it the light dawn red that spreads into the sea of ​​clouds from the top of Mount Tai?

Is it the green of the newly sprouted buds on the saline-alkali land of the river island?

Or is it the amber yellow at the bottom of a bowl of Shandong grain, which symbolizes a good harvest?

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This time, let’s talk about the “blue land” of Haidai, Qi and Lu, which is often underestimated by public opinion.

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Shandong is a large maritime province, with an area of ​​about 159,500 square kilometers adjacent to the sea, which is equivalent to its land area;

The coastline is more than 3,500 kilometers, accounting for about one-sixth of the country;

The marine resource abundance index ranks first in the country.

Haidai Qilu "is half on the sea", which shows the advantages and potential of Shandong in managing the ocean.

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During the 2018 Two Sessions, General Secretary Xi Jinping delivered a speech to the Shandong delegation, emphasizing that the ocean is a strategic place for high-quality development and that contributions should be made to building a strong maritime nation.

Three months later, the General Secretary visited Shandong, left his footprints on the coast of the Yellow Sea, and once again emphasized that the development of the marine economy has a bright future.

Looking back at the past five years of Shandong's deep cultivation of the blue land, the new path of building a strong maritime province has yielded fruitful results - the province's total marine economic output has remained among the highest in the country, and has become the biggest driving force, greatest advantage and potential for leading Shandong's high-quality development.

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The word "ocean" is of great weight.

It is located at the intersection of the three major security needs of economic security, sovereignty security, and ecological security, and is also an important breakthrough point for the "future strategy."

Currently, on a global scale, the marine economy has deeply penetrated into the national economic systems of some countries, becoming an important economic growth point and an important support for expanding the space for economic and social development. Its strategic position is becoming increasingly prominent.

From the perspective of output value and employment, the marine industry, mainly composed of marine oil and gas, port shipping, marine tourism and marine fisheries, has become an important source of national wealth growth in developed countries in Europe and the United States and developing countries in the Asia-Pacific region.

In the future, the growth potential of the marine economy will exceed the growth rate of the global economy as a whole, and its share in the global economy will further expand.

In 2022, the national marine gross domestic product will increase by more than 6% year-on-year, and it is expected that the national marine gross domestic product will likely exceed 10 trillion yuan in 2023.

Last year, Shandong released its first marine economic development report, announcing that the province's marine economy has entered a new stage of total growth and efficiency improvement. In 2021, Shandong achieved a marine GDP of 1.49 trillion yuan , accounting for about 1/6 of the country's total and 18% of the province's GDP. The total marine economy ranked second in the country. Among them, the added value of six marine industries, including marine fisheries, marine salt industry, and marine biopharmaceuticals, ranked first in the country.

At the same time, Shandong has steadily increased its blue granary supply capacity by demanding "food" from the blue ocean. The number of national-level marine ranch demonstration areas has increased to 59, more than one-third of the national total; the province's marine product output increased by 3.1% year-on-year. The supply of marine energy has continued to increase, with marine crude oil and natural gas output increasing by 2.1% and 31.6% year-on-year respectively.

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Behind the rise of the modern marine industry is the strong support of scientific and technological innovation.

In recent years, Shandong has accelerated the building of national marine strategic scientific and technological forces, improved the regional marine science and technology innovation system, actively carried out modern marine industry technology research, and built marine engineering technology collaborative innovation centers and modern marine industry technology innovation centers. For example, it has jointly built the country's first seawater comprehensive utilization research center with the Tianjin Seawater Desalination and Comprehensive Utilization Research Institute of the Ministry of Natural Resources and the Weifang Municipal Government.

Shandong has accelerated the construction of a number of national marine science and technology innovation platforms, such as the Qingdao National Laboratory for Marine Science and Technology Pilot and the National Deep Sea Base. Relying on marine technology innovation carriers such as Qingdao "Blue Valley" and Yantai "Seed Silicon Valley", it has attracted nearly half of the country's marine science and technology talents and one-third of the country's academicians in the marine field to gather here.

As Shandong's marine science and technology innovation capabilities continue to increase, some fields have made a major leap from "following" to "leading".

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Since the 13th Five-Year Plan, Shandong has undertaken nearly half of the country's major marine science and technology projects, implemented major projects such as the "Transparent Ocean" and the "Asking the Sea Plan", and developed a number of high-end equipment with independent intellectual property rights, such as smart buoys, deep-sea buoys, and underwater unmanned vehicles, which have been put into use.

The "National Marine Innovation Index Report 2022" shows that among the 11 coastal provinces (municipalities and autonomous regions) in the country, Shandong's regional marine innovation index ranks in the first echelon in the country.

In recent years, not only have Qingdao, Yantai and Weihai completed the tasks of marine economic innovation demonstration development cities and passed the national overall assessment, a total of 89 demonstration projects have been implemented, and 4.43 billion yuan of investment has been completed, but also the scale of the province's six industries, namely marine fisheries, marine salt, marine transportation, marine biomedicine, marine electricity and marine mining, ranks first in the country. The number of national-level marine ranch demonstration areas has increased to 59, more than one-third of the total number in the country. Modern marine industry has become the backbone of Shandong's new growth momentum.

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At the same time, Shandong continues to inject green factors into the blue sea.

This green is both ecological green and kinetic green.

As a new strategic field, the blue ocean must be planned as early as possible to prepare for sustainable development in advance.

To create green mountains and clear waters, land and sea are "one chessboard". The root of marine ecological environment problems lies on land. Shandong has innovated the land and sea comprehensive governance mechanism, and coordinated the promotion of land-based pollution prevention and control, marine pollution prevention and control, and marine ecological protection and restoration. It requires attention to the connection and linkage of the bay chief system and the river chief system, and combines prevention and control to achieve long-term protection of the marine ecological environment; actively carry out blue carbon sink actions, strengthen ecological protection and restoration of coastal shelterbelts, beaches, wetlands, etc., and protect the bottom line for the recuperation of marine life.

In 2022, the proportion of good water quality in Shandong's coastal waters will remain stable at around 90%, and the quality of the marine ecological environment will be significantly improved. The comprehensive management of the Bohai Sea has shown results, with nearly 5,000 hectares of coastal wetlands and more than 60 kilometers of coastline repaired and restored, completing 123.0% and 285.5% of the task goals respectively. The overall health of typical marine ecosystems such as the Yellow River Estuary, Laizhou Bay, and Miaodao Islands has shown an improving trend, and the area of ​​good water quality in various marine protected areas has increased significantly.

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Building an offshore "energy island" will generate new green energy in the blue sea. The construction of the Shandong Peninsula's 10 million kilowatt offshore wind power base, one of the four major clean energy bases, continues to advance, and the amount of wind power connected to the grid along the coast has increased by 30.6% over the previous year. Desalination of seawater has been incorporated into the unified water resources allocation system. By the end of 2021, a total of 40 desalination projects have been completed, with an annual freshwater production capacity of 165 million tons, providing an important guarantee for the water resources security of coastal cities and islands.

At the beginning of this year, Shandong issued the "Three-Year Action Plan for Building a Green, Low-Carbon and High-Quality Development Pilot Zone in Shandong Province (2023-2025)", which proposed to implement the marine industry expansion action. Accelerate the research and development and application of new marine materials, extend the marine chemical industry chain; create an offshore "energy island" integrating wind energy development, hydrogen energy utilization, seawater desalination and marine ranch construction, and build the Yantai Dingzi Bay Dual Carbon Smart Valley. Implement smart ocean projects, build a national marine comprehensive test site (Weihai), deeply participate in the United Nations "Ocean Decade" plan and other goals, and focus on improving the efficiency of marine resource utilization.

Strive to be strong at sea and ride the wind and waves.

Facing this blue sea, Shandong has already cut through the fog and sailed towards the deep blue with the momentum of riding the wind and waves.

The magnificent scroll of high-quality development of the marine economy has already unfolded.