A state-of-the-art aquaculture vessel was delivered on Wednesday in Zhanjiang City in Guangdong Province, an economic powerhouse in south China.
The high-end marine vessel, Zhanjiang Bay 1, is set to inject new momentum into the country's aquaculture industry.
The Zhanjiang Bay 1 is a dynamically positioned, floating cage-type aquaculture vessel, the first of its kind in the world to integrate efficiency, mobility and intelligent operations.
The Zhanjiang Bay 1, independently developed and made at home, measures 154 meters in length and 44 meters in width. It has a total farming water volume of 80,000 cubic meters. With 12 independent farming zones, the vessel enables simultaneous cultivation of multiple fish species with an annual production capacity of 2,000 to 5,000 tons and a designed service life of 20 years.
The vessel incorporates cutting-edge technologies such as autonomous navigation, typhoon emergency evasion and green energy self-sufficiency, according to its chief designer Chen Xiao.
"Zhanjiang Bay 1 adopts an ultra-large-scale intensive aquaculture model. Designed for deep-sea operations across vast offshore areas, it can relocate up to 1,000 nautical miles and operate in waters deeper than over 20 meters. Equipped with green energy self-sufficiency, intelligent feeding and real-time monitoring, the platform achieves fully intelligent management through the entire process and scientific farming across the full life cycle," said Chen.
The Zhanjiang Bay 1 is a self-propelled, migratory aquaculture vessel. Its delivery and commissioning mark a significant step forward for China's marine aquaculture industry into deep sea waters, providing crucial technical support for the development of modern marine ranches.
Innovative aquaculture vessel hits waters in Guangdong
Authorities in southwest China's Xizang Autonomous Region have been implementing public wellbeing programs to ensure a good start to the 15th Five-Year Plan period (2026-2030), as high-quality public service resources continue to reach grassroots communities.
The Xizang Hospital, being built under the auspices of the West China Second University Hospital of Sichuan University, which was included in the fourth batch of national regional medical center projects in October 2022, is under construction.
Once operational, it will save local residents' trips to other provinces for medical treatment, effectively addressing the shortage of high-quality medical resources in the region.
During the 15th Five-Year Plan period, the regional government will make simultaneous efforts to increase the income of urban and rural residents, optimize basic public services, and broaden employment channels. It will also ensure that the number of families with no employed members is steadily reduced to zero, promote work-relief programs, and increase new urban employment opportunities.
Meanwhile, Xizang will step up the construction of county-level medical and health consortia, achieve full coverage of public childcare services at the prefecture level, and improve education, medical care, elderly care, and childcare services.
"We will continue to take improving people's livelihood and rallying people's support as our ultimate objectives, focusing on increasing employment and people's income, improving education quality, medical and health care, social security, elderly care, and childcare services, so that the achievements of building a new modern socialist Xizang can benefit more people in a fair manner," said Wang Jingcai, deputy director of the regional development and reform commission.
Authorities in Xizang roll out public wellbeing programs to ensure good start to 15th Five-Year Plan
