Shipbuilding
On July 14th, the conference on the integration and development of the shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry chain was held in Zhenjiang, Jiangsu Province. The Jiangsu Provincial Department of Industry and Information Technology released the cultivation opinions of world-class shipbuilding and marine engineering industry clusters at the conference.
The shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry is an important strategic industry for implementing the strategies of becoming a maritime power, manufacturing power, and transportation power. In recent years, Jiangsu has accelerated the construction of a world-class shipbuilding and marine equipment advanced manufacturing industry cluster, promoting the transformation from a shipbuilding province to a strong shipbuilding province. Zhenjiang and other places have also seized the development opportunities of the shipbuilding industry, deepened structural adjustment, strengthened policy guidance, and continuously expanded the industrial scale, gradually demonstrating agglomeration effects.
The shipbuilding and marine industry in Zhenjiang has a long history and distinctive features. Zhenjiang Shipyard, which is deeply rooted in the local area, is the first shipbuilding enterprise in Jiangsu Province. Jiangsu University of Science and Technology, located in Zhenjiang, is known as the "cradle of shipbuilding engineers". Zhenjiang has Jiangsu Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering Design and Research Institute, more than 10 provincial-level and above enterprise technology centers, and multiple "singles champions" in the field of shipbuilding and marine engineering. In the first half of this year, the taxable sales of the entire shipbuilding and marine industry chain in Zhenjiang increased by 38.8% year-on-year. Currently, it is striving to build a more complete, distinctive, and resilient shipbuilding and marine industry chain.
At the meeting, the Zhenjiang Municipal Government signed a cooperation agreement with China Shipbuilding Power Co., Ltd. According to the agreement, China Shipbuilding Power has decided to establish a new low-carbon/zero carbon fuel marine power research and development project industrialization base in Zhenjiang. Eight technology investment cooperation projects have been signed, with a small investment amount, but they are closely focused on key core technologies in areas such as marine engines, ship intelligent systems, marine development equipment, and new energy. As one of the signed technology cooperation investment projects, the cooperation between Zhenjiang Shipyard and Jiangsu University of Science and Technology mainly focuses on research and promotion of hybrid full rotation tugboat technology.
In order to accelerate the innovative development of the shipbuilding and marine industry, Jiangsu is focusing on key links and areas of weakness in the industrial chain, carrying out original and leading scientific and technological breakthroughs, and striving to build an important national high-tech innovation highland for the shipbuilding industry. In March last year, the "14th Five Year Plan" for the development of the shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry in Jiangsu Province proposed that Jiangsu should seize the strategic opportunity of building the "largest and most complete comprehensive industrial cluster of shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment in the Yangtze River Delta" and promote the construction of a world-class advanced shipbuilding and marine engineering equipment industry cluster. Last year, Nantong, Taizhou, and Yangzhou marine equipment and high-tech ship clusters were selected as national advanced manufacturing clusters.