Marine economy generally includes the production activities of developing marine resources and relying on marine space, as well as related industrial activities of directly or indirectly developing marine resources and space. The economic aggregate formed by these industrial activities is regarded as the category of modern marine economy. Such as marine fishery, marine transportation, marine shipbuilding, marine salt industry, marine oil and gas industry, coastal tourism and so on. , all belong to the category of modern marine economy.
The marine economy is mainly manifested in the multi-directional expansion of the scope of activities, the rapid growth of the total economic volume, faster than the national economic growth and the economic growth of the coastal developed areas that have been in the leading position, and the development of the marine industry is faster than the overall development of the industry.
Marine economic industries include:
1, marine mineral resources. Marine mineral resources, also known as seabed mineral resources, are the general names of all kinds of mineral resources in seashore, shallow sea, deep sea, ocean basin and the bottom of mid-ocean ridge. Mainly oil, coal, iron, bauxite, manganese, copper, quartzite and so on.
2. Seawater chemical resources. Mainly chlorine, sodium, magnesium, sulfur, iodine, uranium, gold, nickel and so on. Dissolved in seawater, it is a mineral resource like marine mineral resources (different from biological resources).
3. Marine living resources. Also known as marine aquatic resources, it refers to the number of economic animals and plants in the ocean, and it is a living marine resource that can self-multiply and renew.
4. Marine power resources. It mainly refers to tidal energy, wave energy and ocean current energy generated in the process of seawater movement, as well as temperature difference energy and salt difference energy generated by temperature difference and salinity difference of seawater.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia ‐ Marine Economy