The Hainan Provincial Press Office held a press conference on June 8 to announce the "Fourteenth Five-Year Plan for Hainan's Marine Economic Development" (hereinafter referred to as the "Plan"). The reporter was informed that during the "14th Five-Year Plan" period, Hainan will seize the opportunity of building a free trade port, cultivate and expand emerging marine industries with high added value and strong growth potential, and build a hundred billion-level marine industry clusters such as marine tourism and modern marine service industries. Marine fishery, marine shipping, marine oil and gas and other tens of billions of industrial clusters strive to achieve a total marine production value of 300 billion yuan in the province by 2025, achieving an average annual growth rate of 14.3%, contributing to the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port.
According to the "Plan", in order to promote the high-quality development of the marine economy, Hainan will optimize the spatial layout of the blue economy, build a modern marine industry system, enhance marine scientific and technological innovation capabilities, promote green development of the marine economy, strengthen open cooperation in the marine economy, and enhance marine service guarantees Ability to improve marine economic development policies.
In recent years, Hainan's marine economy has been developing steadily. During the "Thirteenth Five-Year Plan" period, Hainan's marine production value increased from 100.5 billion yuan to 153.6 billion yuan, with an average annual growth rate of 8.85%; in 2020, the marine economy will account for 27.8% of the province’s GDP, which is close to the province’s total economy. 1/3 of it.
Li Lu, Director of the Regional Economic Division of the Hainan Provincial Development and Reform Commission, said that in the context of the construction of a free trade port, Hainan has a strategic opportunity to develop the marine economy, especially as the special opening policy and taxation policy given to Hainan by the state are gradually implemented and effective, multiple policies The superposition and spillover effects will attract a group of high-end marine economy development and innovation elements to gather.
In terms of building a modern marine industry system, the "Planning" proposes to make full use of the free trade port policy, attract capital and innovative elements to the marine industry, optimize and upgrade marine traditional industries, cultivate and expand marine emerging industries, and promote the development of marine industry clusters. , To build a modern marine industry system with reasonable structure, mutual coordination and strong competitiveness.
Tourism is one of the key industries for the development of Hainan Free Trade Port. Li Yong, the second-level inspector of the Department of Tourism, Culture, Radio, Television and Sports of Hainan Province, said that in terms of marine tourism, Hainan will vigorously develop cruise yacht tourism and develop special cruise lines and products. Unblock the domestic circulation of cruise routes, promote the opening of offshore cruise routes around Hainan Island, Beibu Gulf, and routes from eastern coastal areas to Hainan, and upgrade Paracel Cruises' tourism products. Explore the international circulation of cruise routes, and use cooperation platforms such as the "Asian Cruise Alliance" and the China-ASEAN Cruise Tourism Development Alliance to build cruise travel routes around the South China Sea, the RCEP region, and countries along the Maritime Silk Road. Implement pilot projects of upstream sea routes in Sanya and other cruise ports. Promote the implementation of the establishment of duty-free shops in cruise ships and cruise port terminals.
Source: China Trade News
