Director of State Oceanic Administration Sun Shuxian: Forward-looking layout of deep-sea industry, marine digital industry and other future marine industries.

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29/08/2025
Sun Shuxian, Director of the State Oceanic Administration, published an article in the Study Times today titled "Embarking on a China-specific path to strengthen the seas". In the article, he mentioned the need to strengthen, improve, and expand the maritime industry. This includes supporting the transformation and upgrading of traditional marine industries, continuously promoting the exploration and development of marine oil and gas, actively expanding deep-sea aquaculture, developing modern ocean fishing, and promoting the high-quality development of shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment manufacturing. The focus is on cultivating and expanding strategic emerging industries such as ocean energy, marine drugs and bioproducts, and seawater desalination on a large scale, and promoting the standardized and orderly construction of offshore wind power. Building marine cultural and tourism destinations, promoting the high-quality development of the shipping industry, improving the level of marine financial services, and promoting deep integration of the marine industry with the digital economy. Strategically laying out future marine industries such as deep-sea industries and marine digital industries.