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By ZHENG CAIXIONGzhengcaixiong@chinadaily.迷你倉com.cnLeaders of Zhanjiang, a coastal city in the western part of Guangdong province, expect the sea to play an increasingly important role in the city’s economic growth in the years ahead.With abundant marine resources, including natural gas, crude oil, fisheries and offshore wind force, the city has unique advantages for oceanic industries.The central government approved Zhanjiang to become a comprehensive experimental zone for developing marine economy in Guangdong in 2011. Local officials say the coastal city should seize this opportunity to develop the city’s oceanic industries.The marine sector is on a track to becoming a pillar industry and playing a bigger part in Zhanjiang’s economic growth in 2020, according to the city’s blueprint for oceanic development.The city aspires to be a model for marine economy. To this end, relevant departments in the city have been urged to map out details and ambitious development plans that apply scientific methods to the industry.Meanwhile, the blueprint requires departments to introduce effective and concrete measures to protect the sea while taking efforts to develop the city’s chemical, steel, fishery and tourism industries.The water at more than 90 percent of the project areas should meet quality standards by that time, local authorities said.It is also moving to enhance protection of coral reefs, wetlands and mangroves.AquacultureKnown as the “city of prawns”, Zhanjiang should also expand its investment in ocean aquaculture industry in the future, local authorities said.Zhanjiang’s prawn output now annually represents more than 75 percent of the country’s total, while its pearl output accounts for 60 percent, according to statistics from the city government.The city has great potential in the fields of ocean medicine, aquatic product processing and breeding, local authorities said.The city’s aquatic product quality demonstration zone for exports was among the first group of 90 national safety and quality zones certified by the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine last year.Aquatic exports from Zhanjiang have surpassed 100,000 tons every year for the past six years.It is the top locale in the country for the breeding, processing, export and sale of prawns.Last year, Zhanjiang was assigned the role as a national base for the transformation of the aquatic product industry.Ocean industryGu Jian’guang, director of economic policy research institute with Shanghai Jiaotong University, said Zhanjiang has unique advantages in developing its ocean industry.“It faces the vast South China Sea and has constructed good ports, harbors and related facilities, which have provide自存倉 a good platform for the city to develop its ocean industry,” Gu told a seminar in Zhanjiang on Sept 23.“Therefore, Zhanjiang has a great potential to develop ocean energy, natural resources, logistics, fishery and port transportation industries,” the professor said.“The city government should fully use its unique advantages to develop ocean industry in the coming years,” Gu added.The city projects its annual oceanic economic output will hit 180 billion yuan ($28.82 billion) by 2015.The sectors that play a strong role in oceanic industries include portside iron and steel, petrochemicals and papermaking, oceanic equipment manufacturing, tourism, offshore oil and gas exploration, and port-related logistics.Construction is underway on massive petrochemical and iron and steel projects on 286-square-kilometer Donghai Island.Built with joint investment from China Petroleum and Chemical Corp and Kuwait Petroleum Corp, the petrochemical complex is scheduled to be operational in 2015.With an initial investment of 59 billion yuan, it is designed to process 15 million tons of crude oil and 1 million tons of ethylene annually.Construction began in late May on the 69.6-billion-yuan Baosteel Zhanjiang Iron and Steel Co project, which is designed to turn out 9.2 million tons of iron and 10 million tons of steel annually.ResortAuthorities also aim to develop the city into a seaside resort center in South China and an international tourism peninsula.The goal is to receive 43 million visitors a year by the end of 2015, with annual revenue from the sector hitting 25 billion yuan, accounting for more than 6.5 percent of the city’s GDP.With 30 islands in its jurisdiction, the city hosted 18.1 million visitors last year, up 28.1 percent over 2010.Meanwhile Zhanjiang is the gateway for expanding China’s economy southward and for strengthening trade relations with the Association of Southeast Asian Nations.Guangdong provincial government has since tasked Zhanjiang with leading the push for further modernization in western Guangdong.Zhanjiang’s own blueprint calls for marine research and development as well as the cultivation of oceanic brands by 2015.Located on the Leizhou Peninsula, the port city of Zhanjiang has a coastline of 2,403 kilometers, accounting for about 6.7 percent of the country’s total and 36.4 percent of the province’s total.And Zhanjiang, which administers a sea area of more than 20,000 sq km, has more than 140 islands.The city’s Donghai Island is the fifth largest in the country, while the Nansan Island is the seventh largest.The city has tidal land covering about 100,000 hectares, accounting for 5 percent of the country’s total.180 billion yuanThe projected oceanic economic output by 2015.mini storage