Earth is a blue planet with oceans covering up to 71% of its surface, and human exploration of the oceans has never ceased.
Recently, with the completion of its eleventh dive mission by the "Jiaolong" manned submersible, it signifies that our country has achieved a new milestone in the endeavor of ocean exploration.
In the utilization of marine resources, our country has also made a significant breakthrough.
The official production of this project can bring an annual revenue of 54 million to our country.
The deep blue ocean harbors many ancient creatures from hundreds of millions of years ago, and human exploration and development of the ocean is still less than 10%.
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Developing a marine economy and building a strong maritime nation is a strategic guideline essential for every coastal country, and it also has significant implications for our country's economic development.
With the continuous advancement of technology, the global marine economy is experiencing rapid development, and deep-sea resources have become a hot spot for human exploration.
The first to be discovered by everyone is the oil reserves in the deep sea, with 70% of the world's major oil fields coming from the deep sea below 1000 meters.
Currently, our country has achieved excellent results in the exploration and development of deep-sea oil fields, and the intelligent deep-water drilling platform has also made a significant breakthrough in deep-water oil field technology.
Moreover, there is a large amount of rare metal ore in the deep sea, and these minerals are basically located below 4000 meters in the deep sea.
However, the exploration of the ocean has affected the originally harmonious deep-sea ecosystem due to a large amount of bottom trawling operations in recent years.
Therefore, in the future exploration of deep-sea resources, we cannot blindly overdevelop and need to change our thinking from fishing to the development of marine biodiversity.
Deep-sea creatures can survive at the bottom of the sea, and the various abilities they possess are also very attractive.
Genetic resources are a new direction for the development of deep-sea biological resources.
Relevant applications have begun to emerge, with significant potential in the pharmaceutical field and a broad prospect in the fields of beauty and health care.
Speaking of the utilization of marine resources, Chinese people can be proud to say that we are the pioneers of the world, after all, our ancestors began marine fishing from ancient times.
In the Dawenkou culture site in Jiaozhou, Shandong, we found a large number of fish bones and piles of scattered fish scales.
After analysis, these fish bones belong to the upper fish between the ocean and the near-sea, but this also shows that human understanding of the ocean had already begun at that time.
Our country's ancient understanding of the ocean was relatively shallow, and the ancients mainly focused on aspects of ocean topography, climate, tides, and marine life.
It is worth mentioning that the ancients had already begun to use the beach to resist natural disasters, so the ancients achieved remarkable results in coastal protection.
Until the Warring States period, Zou Yan of Qi proposed an oceanic view of the Earth, which is later known as the theory of the Great Nine Provinces.
At that time, there was a concept of the ocean, and it was realized that there were other continents like ours beyond this vast expanse of water.
In modern times, our country's ocean scientific research began in the early 20th century, and the study of the ocean has never ceased until the outbreak of the Anti-Japanese War.
The study of the ocean in our country fell into a standstill, but after the victory of the Anti-Japanese War, Shandong University, National Taiwan University, and Xiamen University successively established ocean research institutes, and Xiamen University also established a department of oceanography.
With the continuous advancement of our country's technology, the equipment for ocean exploration is becoming more and more advanced, from unmanned submersibles to manned submersibles.
We are constantly refreshing our limits in ocean exploration, and thus our understanding of the ocean is becoming richer and richer.
The "Jiaolong" manned submersible is the first deep-sea manned submersible in our country.
Since 2002, the Ministry of Science and Technology of our country officially approved the submersible research project, and the 702nd Research Institute of China Shipbuilding Industry Corporation and the Shenyang Automation Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and other domestic deep-sea equipment research and development advantage units, have become the backbone of the project development.
Since the successful delivery of Jiaolong, it has achieved successful cases of sea trials from one thousand meters to seven thousand meters in just three years.
Being able to dive to seven thousand meters is enough to show that Jiaolong's integrated technology is very mature, which also indicates that our country's deep-sea exploration equipment has reached an astonishing height.
The deep sea contains abundant resources and is the blue space for human development in the future.
With the support of Jiaolong, our country will surely make more great discoveries.
On September 4, our country put a new project into operation in Shanwei, Guangdong, which is expected to generate a value of 54 million yuan for our country every year.
This project is the first "wind and fish integration" marine ranch in the country, "Fuxi No.
1".
Why is it said to be a wind and fish integrated marine ranch?
In fact, our country is gradually developing new channels in the acquisition of electric power energy, and traditional coal-fired power generation and subsequent nuclear power station power generation have severe pollution for our country.
At present, our country advocates wind power, hydropower, and photovoltaic power generation technology, which is not only environmentally friendly but also greatly saves energy consumption.
Offshore wind power has always been an important support project for our country, and the construction of "Fuxi No.
1" has started construction in August 2023.
The total investment exceeds 200 million yuan, relying solely on green energy for power generation.
Don't underestimate this power generation building, there is also a different world under it.
Under the water, "Fuxi No.
1" has created a comprehensive multi-nutrient aquaculture system, introduced bottom sowing propagation technology, and raised fish and shrimp feeding species together with shellfish and algae extraction species, improving the fishing environment and marine ecological chain.
In addition, it is also equipped with a green and environmentally friendly power supply system, achieving air and water feeding, automatic cleaning of the net, and other functions, and the most magical thing is that it can also ensure the insurance of live fish.
After the operation of "Fuxi No.
1", it can create about 200 jobs for the local area, and will gradually form a "wind power + deep-sea aquaculture + ecological benefit + leisure tourism" wind and fish integration demonstration cluster.
Yesterday, this big guy has been officially put into operation at sea, and the first batch of breeding fish fry has been put into operation, which can not only resist the test of super typhoons of level 17, but also the breeding system at the bottom, which is expected to produce about 900 tons of high-quality seawater fish per year, with an annual output value of 54 million yuan, which has important demonstration significance for the integrated development of our country's "offshore wind power + marine ranch" industry.
Faced with the vast ocean, our country is constantly updating its equipment to ensure that the exploration of the ocean reaches a new height.
In terms of environmental protection, we also try to achieve green ecology, and the operation of "Fuxi No.
1" indicates a new height in the development of our country's marine resources.
I believe that in the near future, more masterpieces that stimulate high-quality development with the "blue engine" will emerge in our field of vision.