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Hebei Province Keen to Develop Marine Industry
North China's Hebei Province is determined to benefit from its thriving marine industry.
The province, with 487 kilometers of coastline, has invested more than one million yuan to set up breeding zones of fish, crabs and shellfish, in addition to researches into high-tech industry based on marine organisms, according to officials at the provincial bureau of oceanography.
In the past centuries, the Chinese nation has always paid greater attention to its land resources than its marine ones.
Now, it is clearly high time for China to pay more attention to its vast ocean treasures.
Experts hold that, as a major developing country with a long coastline, China must exploit the ocean as a long-term development strategy while protecting marine resources.
China has a mainland coastline of 18,000 km. In addition, there are more than 5,000 islands in China's territorial waters, each with an area of more than 500 square meters, and the islands' coastlines total more than 14,000 km. China also exercises sovereignty and jurisdiction over vast continental shelves and exclusive economic zones.
China has adopted a policy of developing and utilizing this wealth of marine resources in a comprehensive way.
In recent years, China has made constant efforts to upgrade its maritime fishing, transportation, salt-making and other traditional sectors, and to develop aquaculture, offshore oil and gas, marine tourism, marine pharmaceuticals and other new industries.
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