Domestic current affairs
1. The Seminar on the High-quality Development of China's Ports and Shipping was held in Wuhan
On September 9, the 2019 China Port and Shipping High-quality Development Seminar was held in Wuhan, during which the Third Member Congress of the Eighth Session of the China Port Association and the Third Council of the Eighth Session were held, and Comrade Li Fengli, Deputy Secretary of the Party Committee, Director and General Manager of Shandong Port Group, was elected as the director, standing director and vice president of the Eighth Council.
2. The 70-year Academic Forum on the Development of Fishery Science and Technology was successfully held
On September 8th, the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences held a grand academic forum on the 70th Anniversary of the Development of Fishery Science and Technology and the 50th Anniversary of Academician Tang Qisheng's Engaging in Fishery Science research at the Qingdao Marine Science and Technology Pilot National Laboratory.
3. The first domestically produced polar exploration cruise ship set sail for Antarctica
At 8 o'clock on September 9, the first domestic polar exploration cruise ship "Greg Mortimer" officially set sail from Pier 1 of Jiangsu Merchants Industrial Haimen Base to ushuaia, a small city in southern Argentina, and after rectifying preparations, began its first voyage to Antarctica.
4. Submariner Tang Jialing won the title of "National Moral Model"
On September 5, the Central Commission for Spiritual Civilization held the Seventh National Moral Model Symposium in Beijing to commend 58 national moral models and 257 winners of the National Moral Model Nomination Award. Tang Jialing, deputy director and senior engineer of the Submariner Management Office of the National Deep Sea Base Management Center, was awarded the honorary title of "National Moral Model".
5. China Ocean Economy Expo will be held in October
On September 5, Shenzhen held a press briefing revealing that the 7th China Marine Economy Expo will be held in Shenzhen from October 14 to 17. The theme of the expo is "Blue Opportunities, Create a Better Future".
International highlights
1. China and Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Ship Electronic Certificates
On September 5, China and Singapore signed a Memorandum of Understanding on Electronic Certificates for Ships, aiming to promote the use of electronic certificates for registered vessels in the two countries and strengthen cooperation in the field of electronic certificates for ships.
2. Iran's new trend of releasing oil tankers: the US sabotage has not worked, and the goods have been successfully unloaded
According to foreign media reports, an Iranian released oil tanker sailing in the Mediterranean sea recently has a new trend. Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesman Abbas Mousavi said on the 8th that "despite various destructive actions taken by the United States", the Iranian oil tanker "Adrian Daria I" successfully unloaded oil and is now moored in a Mediterranean port.
3. Nobel laureate in physics on artificial intelligence: the field of marine economy to be developed attention
"At present, human beings are focusing on artificial intelligence manufacturing on land, but in fact, the application of artificial intelligence in the field of blue economy and marine economy is equally important to us." Nobel Laureate in Physics George Smoot said in a recent interview that the application of artificial intelligence in the field of marine economy needs to be developed.
Local coverage
1. Guangdong built the country's first provincial-level tsunami monitoring and early warning full-chain system
The completion of the whole chain system of tsunami monitoring and early warning has realized the leap from scratch in the independent development and construction of a local marine observation and forecasting system in Guangdong Province, which will greatly improve the basic level of Guangdong marine early warning and provide rapid, scientific and reliable auxiliary decision-making support for marine disaster prevention and mitigation.
2. The National Underwater Robot Competition will be held in Cham Zhanjiang Municipal Government signed a contract with Pengcheng Laboratory
On the morning of September 9, Zhanjiang Municipal People's Government signed a contract with Pengcheng Laboratory and the launching activity of the National Underwater Robot (Winter) Competition was held in Zhanjiang. Zhanjiang will cooperate with Pengcheng Laboratory to carry out artificial intelligence technology to empower application fields, explore pengcheng laboratory cooperation with Zhanjiang Bay laboratory and hold a national underwater robot competition.
natural disaster
1. Hurricane Dorian swept across Canada's eastern maritime provinces
Hurricane Dorian, which ravaged the Bahamas and killed more than 40 people, swept across Canada's eastern maritime provinces over the weekend of September 7-8, leaving a mess and wreaking havoc on the local power supply network.
Material source: China Ocean News, China News Network, Wisdom Ocean, Ocean Knowledge Circle
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