With the geographical advantages of gold watercourse and Gold Coast intersection, the Yangtze River Delta region is becoming a concentrative region which the world shipbuilding industry investment. In the "11th Five-Year Plan" period, Shanghai, Jiangsu and Zhejiang is expected to form nearly 30 million tons of shipbuilding capacity, in 2015, the share of Yangtze River Delta region shipbuilding output to China's shipbuilding market will from the current 50% to over 60%.

In 2010, the Yangtze River Delta shipbuilding capacity nearly 30 million tons

A few years ago, the coastline on the Yangtze which 20 km east of Nantong Qidong Wucang harbor everywhere was wormwood, and reed flicker, but Now here is the "ship Valley" of Qidong. The Huigang shipbuilding, Qiya shipbuilding, Dongjiang shipbuilding and etc more than 10 foreign-funded enterprises competing with the beach, five shipyards construction at the same time, the total investment exceeded 2.5 billion yuan, the shipbuilding industry group in Qidong which along the river shoreline has begun to take shape.

And Jingjiang Taizhou city, which not far from Nantong, by right of their 52.3 kilometers Yangtze River shoreline resources, intend to make bigger and stronger ship manufacturing in the five years, form production scale about three million tons to 400 million tones, ranks among the top five shipbuilding enterprises.

Meanwhile, Ningbo, which in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta, just completed the largest civil engineering of shipbuilding dock in the province. The principal of Zhejiang shipbuilding company who responsible for the project introduce, "the actual shipbuilding capacity of 2,600-meter long pier could reach 100,000-ton"

According to the "11th Five-Year Plan" of shipbuilding industry in Zhejiang and Shanghai's, the shipbuilding capacity of Shanghai will reach 10 million dwt in 2010, and the shipbuilding capacity of Zhejiang will close to 10 million dwt.

The world shipbuilding industry gather to the Yangtze River Delta

"Since the mid-1990s China's shipbuilding output ranks third in the world, the world shipbuilding industry accelerating the transfer to China, to the Yangtze River Delta." China Shipbuilding Industry Association Guangqin said.

 Data show that at the first half of 2006, China's shipbuilding industry maintained the rapid growth. The new undertaking ship orders was 16.08 million dwt, it shared 95% of the annual turnover in 2005, and shared 27% of the world market; The new undertaking armed ship orders was 50.92 million dwt, increased by nearly 11 million tons than the end of 2005; Shipbuilding completion was 5.28 million dwt, of which ship exports was 4.3 million dwt, which shared 81% of the total shipbuilding. Shipping products exported to 112 countries and regions, of which, the countries and regions whose exports sum more than 10 million US dollars amounted to 33.

Over the years, the Yangtze River Delta cities bend themselves to build advanced manufacturing base, use the concentrative development of marine accessory equipment manufacturing as the breakthrough, construct the pattern that coordinated development of ship building supporting industry and Shipbuilding And Repair Industry, all of this obtaining positive outcome.

Quicken the pace of industrial upgrading and prevent overheated investment

Faced with such rapid growth in the shipbuilding scale，Industry is beginning to pay attention to the problem of surplus production. Chairman of the Shanghai Shipbuilding Association, professor of Shanghai Jiaotong University, Zhang Shengkun noted that although the shipbuilding output of China has 10 consecutive year ranking third in the world, but the gap between China's shipbuilding technology level and foreign advanced level had no significantly narrowed.

In the "2006 World Shipping and supporting industries Development Forum" which recently held in Nantong. Experts thought that from the development rule of the industry, owing to the prominent advantage of heavy chemical industry development and labor cost, Chinese shipbuilding industry has irreplaceable advantages in the pattern of World shipbuilding industry in future, it will be in a good period of rise in the first 20 years in this century.

In March this year, the State Council held a meeting, deployed and put into effect the work of the "the views of State Council revitalization on Accelerating the equipment manufacturing industry". China's shipbuilding industry was classified as key industries of manufacturing equipment development. In August this year, Premier Wen Jiabao presided over a State Council executive meeting, discuss and pass on principle the "the Outline of National Plan for Medium to Long-term shipbuilding industry Development", the "outline" put forward a series of development measures: deep the reform, accelerate the shipbuilding mode change; Optimizate industry structure, develop advanced shipbuilding; Vigorously develop technological innovation, improve the overall level of science and technology; Persist in Combining of the "Coming in" & "Going out" simultaneously, use the open ideas to build support base.

The Yangtze River Delta region is actively exploring in a number of ways. Nantong City focused on the introduction at a high starting point, high standard construction shipyards, gradually formed the shipbuilding industry production chain that use Nantong COSCO Kawasaki, COSCO Shipyard, Rongsheng shipbuilding as the leader, many economic components existence. Ningbo is planning to use Yinzhou District as the center to establish a technological innovation system, developing the design and development company of professional ship engineering, formed three or four advanced manufacturing base with modern Shipbuilding models.

Li Qingping, Deputy Director of National Maritime Bureau, told reporters that owing to the unified arrangements Commission of "special treatment of low quality ships" which deployed by the Ministry of National Defense and other departments, since last year April, has been close 303 shipyard, and 291 ship production enterprises completed the rectification, 406 ship production enterprises is in the rectification, which will help streamline the management system of local shipbuilding industry.