CUG and the governmental committees and bureau of Shenzhen held 2021 High-quality Marine Development Forum in Shenzhen from October 26 to November 1. LIU Yongsheng, Vice President of CUG, and SUN Jun, Dean of the School of Marine Science attended the forum.
LIU Yongsheng said that CUG has been making continuous efforts in the field of marine science in recent years and that CUG and Shenzhen share common goals and complementary resources in promoting “marine science and technology innovation” and the integration of “marine industry-education-research-application”. Giving full play to the advantages of its disciplines, CUG will cooperate with Shenzhen in the promotion of sea and land integration, marine science and technology, the establishment of marine resource trading platform, exploration of the reform of marine resource trading mechanism, and other aspects in order to support Shenzhen to grow into a global marine center.
The 3 sessions of the forum, namely the summit forum, seminars, and field research, focused on “value realization mechanism and trading platform construction of marine resources”, “exploration of development and protection mode of deep sea resources”, “exploration of development and trading mechanism of marine carbon sink”, “exploration of marine economic development and coastal zone development”, and “innovation of marine ecological civilization system and mechanism for sea and land integration”.
The experts and scholars from national high-end think tanks and research institutions were invited to discuss major issues of national marine development, explore new ideas and directions for high-quality marine development, and contribute to the development plans of Shenzhen under national marine strategies.
(Edited and translated from the Chinese version)