Centered on major national strategies such as “Maritime Power,” “Integrated Land-Sea Development,” the “Belt and Road Initiative,” and the “Maritime Community with a Shared Future,” the Institute has carried out a series of original, pioneering, and frontier-oriented research in key areas including marine economic security, marine disasters and risk management, marine industrial clusters, marine economic cycles, and marine input-output modeling. These efforts have yielded abundant research outputs, deep academic foundations, and strong scholarly capabilities, culminating in a portfolio of landmark achievements that have established the Institute’s significant academic standing and influence both domestically and internationally.
Representative Achievements
(1) “China Marine Economic Development Report” was designated by the Ministry of Education in 2013 as a Development Report Cultivation Project on “Major Economic and Social Issues”—the only such project approved to date in the field of marine economics and management in China. The globally released Blue Book of Marine Economy: Annual Report on China’s Marine Economic Development (published by Social Sciences Academic Press) is the first, only, and exclusively authorized marine economy blue book in this field. Its related trademarks have been officially registered with China’s National Intellectual Property Administration. The Blue Book has become a flagship brand in marine economic management worldwide and has received the First Prize of the 12th “Outstanding Yearbook Report Award” and the Second Prize of the 14th “Outstanding Yearbook Award.”
(2) The National Social Science Fund Key Project “Research on Monitoring and Early Warning of China’s Marine Economic Cycle Fluctuations”, led by the Institute, produced outcomes selected for inclusion in the National Philosophy and Social Sciences Achievements Library—the first and only marine economics and management research to receive this honor to date—and awarded the Shandong Provincial Outstanding Achievement Award in Social Sciences (Special Prize). This project achieved multiple “firsts” in China: Constructed the first comprehensive system of econometric models for China’s marine economy (comprising 118 equations); Compiled China’s first marine input-output tables for 19 industrial sectors for the years 2002 and 2007; Systematically calculated 18 categories of key coefficients for China’s marine industries, including direct allocation and consumption coefficients, influence and sensitivity coefficients, production-induced coefficients, and final dependency coefficients; Estimated technology progress coefficients for 12 marine industrial sectors for the first time; Developed China’s first Marine Economic Prosperity Index and Early Warning Index. These breakthroughs revealed the cyclical fluctuation characteristics of China’s marine economy and resolved long-standing debates over criteria for identifying leading and pillar marine industries, as well as the critical question of the contribution rate of technological progress.
(3) The National Social Science Fund Project “Comprehensive Evaluation of the Strength of Marine-Power Provinces (Municipalities) in Coastal Regions”, also led by the Institute, was rated as an “Outstanding Final Report” by the National Social Science Fund Office and included in the State Oceanic Administration’s 2016 Recommended Reading List for National Marine Literacy Campaigns (2016 National Marine Reading Week Initiative). This was the first large-scale, systematic assessment of “marine-power provinces (municipalities)” globally, covering dimensions such as marine economic development, marine science and technology, marine industrial capacity, marine resource endowment, marine sustainability, marine governance, and coastal social development—thereby filling critical gaps in marine economic management research.
(4) The research output on the “Indicator System for the Maritime Power Strategy” was evaluated by expert reviewers as “solving the fundamental ‘existence or non-existence’ problem of China’s maritime power indicator system, filling a critical void in strategic indicator research, and demonstrating strong macro-level relevance, foresight, and innovation—reaching a nationally leading standard.” This work has been reported by over 200 domestic and international media outlets.
(5) The Institute participated in the formulation and revision of the national standard “Classification of Marine and Related Industries (GB/T 20794-2006),” which has been officially adopted as a People’s Republic of China National Standard. Additionally, its completed pre-research project “Technical Guidelines for Standard Terminology in Marine Economic Statistics and Carrying Capacity Analysis of Island Resources and Environment” has served as a key reference for national marine economic classification standards, exerting significant and far-reaching influence on the development of China’s marine economic standardization system.
