Recently, the reporter learned from the Ministry of Natural Resources that preliminary calculations showed that the national marine production value in the first quarter was 2.3 trillion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 5.1%, accounting for 8.2% of the total domestic product. The recovery trend of China's marine economy is strong. In the first quarter, the domestic production of marine aquatic products increased by 4.4% year-on-year, with a year-on-year increase of 4.9% in the production of mariculture. The national production of marine crude oil and marine natural gas increased by 3.8% and 6.5% year-on-year, respectively. The three major shipbuilding indicators increased by 66.9%, 13.2%, and 34.6% year-on-year respectively in terms of new orders, completed orders, and handheld orders. The ocean freight volume reached 1.04 billion tons, an increase of 8.3% year-on-year; The ocean passenger volume increased by 87.8% year-on-year. The container throughput of coastal ports increased by 2.8% year-on-year, and the cargo throughput increased by 5.5% year-on-year. The recovery of the marine tourism industry is evident, and a survey shows that over 60% of marine tourism enterprises have achieved year-on-year growth in revenue. The emerging marine industries are developing well. The seawater desalination project is steadily advancing, and the 50000 ton/day seawater desalination project at Tangshan Port officially provides water to users. The Hangzhou Water Treatment Center has successfully signed a contract for the 300000 ton/day seawater desalination project in Algeria. A questionnaire survey shows that over 60% of marine drug and biological product industry enterprises have achieved year-on-year growth in revenue. The newly added grid connected capacity and power generation of offshore wind power increased by 40.7% and 32.4% year-on-year, respectively. The total construction scale of ongoing and newly started offshore wind power projects is about 18 million kilowatts, doubling from the same period last year. The development trend of the marine engineering equipment manufacturing industry is good, with the delivery order amount being 4.2 times that of the same period last year. In addition, the growth of ocean foreign trade is good. The total import and export volume of sea freight increased by 6.5% year-on-year, 1.7 percentage points higher than the national total import and export growth rate during the same period. The import and export volume of aquatic products increased by 10.8% year-on-year. (New News Agency)