On October 12th, World Marine Equipment Conference 2023 kicked off in Fuzhou. Achievements of the decade in the new era, as an important part of the conference, appeared simultaneously, attracting numerous citizens to come to the exhibition.
With innovation as the core and Chinese characteristics as the main line, the achievementexhibition focuses on industrial trends and regional development, vertically combsoutstanding technical products, and horizontally tells advanced development results, describing a vivid three-dimensional marine equipment industry map.
Themed on “working hard for 10 years, pursuing dreams in dark blue”, the achievement exhibition has seven chapters, including preface, major advanced instruments of great powers, professional disciplines, marine economy, regional style, green intelligence, and outlook for the future, which mainly display the major and outstanding achievements made by China in the field of marine equipment since the opening of 18thNational Congress of the Communist Party of China. We will work with other countries to promote high-quality development of the blue economy and high-level protection of the marine ecological environment, strengthen opening-up and cooperation, share development opportunities and create a future.
Entering the exhibition area of “Advanced Equipment of Great Powers”, models of the large cruise ship “Adora Magic City”, “Changheng” series liquefied natural gas (LNG) ship, “Changyi” large container ship, “Deep-Sea Warrior ( Shenhai Zhanshi)” manned submersible, “Snow Dragon II (Xuelong 2)” polar ice-breaking research vesselcame into view, demonstrating China’s major breakthrough in the field of navigation equipment and highlighting China’s major achievements in the field of high-end ships and offshore engineering equipment.
Model of “Snow Dragon II (Xuelong 2)” polar ice-breaking research vessel.
10 colleges and universities specializing in the fields of shipbuilding and ocean engineering, navigation technology, and marine science gather in the professional discipline exhibition area to showcase their outstanding achievements in scientific research innovation, talent training, and achievement transformation. A number of excellent equipment products such as large cutter suction dredger “Tianjing” and underwater glider “Haiyan” representing the innovation ability and research and development strength of Chinese universities in the field of navigation equipment are displayed.
Fuzhou University’s Display Board.
The marine economy exhibition area put technological innovation and systematic innovation in the fields of deep-sea and far-sea marine aquaculture, marine new energy, and marine tourism on display. New marine engineering equipment represented by the world’s first semi-submersible large-scale intelligent deep-sea aquaculture equipment “Ocean Fishery I” and deep-water semi-submersible production and storage platform of oil “Deep-sea I” and so forth enable visitors to feel the new innovation of marine economic model from modern equipment.
“Blue Whale I (Lanjing 1)”, semi-submersible drilling platform.
At the same time, you can get a glimpse of the regional style in the achievement exhibition. Jiangsu is the largest marine industry province in the country and its three major indicators of shipbuilding rank first in the country for 14 consecutive years, with Marine equipment accounting for more than a quarter of that of the country. By strengthening scientific and technological research and development, developing under the guidance of leading companies and industrial extension, Fujian vigorously develops the marine economy, and promotes the high-end, green and intelligent Marine equipment industry.
Fujian Province’s Booth.
Walking into the green intelligent exhibition area, the sense of the future overwhelms us. Green ships with Lng-powered and battery-powered provide core engine solutions for achieving carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. The world’s first LNG dual-fuel ultra-large crude oil ship “Yuanruiyang” is sailing through the waves, and the key performance indicators of the pure electric business cruise ship “Junlv” have reached the international leading level, constructing a “green garden” on the sea. Green intelligent ships, green intelligent manufacturing, and green intelligent shipping will play a new role in energy conservation and emission reduction. (Min Xie, Reporter of Fuzhou News Network/Photo provided by the organizer)