Hebei Province’s Marine Economic Structure Analysis

In2012, the State Council issued a notice of national marine economic development,"Twelfth Five Year Plan",it clearly put forward a lot of marine development strategies, such asguiding principles and the goal on the development of China’s marine economy, marineindustry development direction and its layout, the development of distinctive regional marineeconomy, enhancing protection measures of marine resources and environment. The pace ofmarine development is accelerating rapidly worldwide, which will become one of the mainfeatures of the world situation. Hebei Province is located beside the Bohai Sea,and it hasdifferent types of marine resources,a relatively favorable condition for the development ofmarine economy. It is of great significance to develop the use of marine resources vigorouslyand to accelerate the development of marine economy in Hebei Province,which will bringlots of benefits,such as fostering new economic growth points, enhancing the strength ofregional economy and achieving the strategic objectives of modernization for Hebei Province.This article starts from the reality of marine economy development on Hebei Province,closely linked to the actual situation, using the Shift Share Method to analyse the marineindustry output of11coastal provinces in China and various departments within the marineindustry output in Hebei Province. Measures are proposed on the basis of theoreticalresearch,which are helpful to solve practical problems. The main research ideas and contentsare as follows:1.A brief description on the state of the marine economy development and marinescience and technology development in Hebei Province.2.Making a horizontal comparative analysis of11coastal provinces’ marine industryoutput, and a longitudinal comparative analysis of the Hebei Province’s marine industryoutput by using the Shift Share Method. Combined with the reality of the development ofHebei marine economy, preliminary conclusions are drawn.That is,which industries should bepositioned as pillar industries or leading industries.3.Proposing the development measures and possible policy recommendations for Hebei marine economy.Through the above analysis, this paper summarizes the state of marine economydevelopment and industrial structural condition in Hebei Province, obtaining the optimalindustrial structure of marine economy, selecting the pillar industries and certain leadingindustries which should be focused on in the future. Finally, the development measures andpossible policy recommendations are proposed for Hebei marine economy.