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July 11 this year marks the 17th "China Sailing Day". "China sailing day" activities organizing committee released by the announcement of the China sea, 2021, said about 95% of the amount of goods in international trade in China is done by sea, shipping in the protection of international logistics and supply chain, promote the development of world economy and trade, maintaining national rights and interests of overseas and build a community of human destiny plays an important role.Influenced by the COVID-19 epidemic, the main forum of China Sailing Day 2021 will be held online. Relevant experts and scholars gathered at "Cloud" to express their views on the development of China's shipping industry, how to achieve high-quality development of the shipping industry, and the future development trend of the shipping industry.Zhao chongjiu, vice minister of the Ministry of Transport and director of China maritime search and rescue center, said that the shipping industry is an important bridge and link to serve the internal and external economic cycle and promote economic globalization. Over the past 70 years, China's shipping industry has gone through a process from "bottleneck restriction" to "preliminary mitigation", and then to "basic adaptation" and "moderately ahead in some fields", and China has become an influential shipping power.In the face of the difficulties and challenges brought by the epidemic, Zhao said that the shipping industry should make efforts in the following aspects: First, it should overcome difficulties, ensure the security, stability and smooth flow of the international logistics supply chain, become the "main force" of opening up and cooperation, and enhance the ability of global shipping resources gathering and factor allocation; Second, we need to make up for the shortcomings of inland river shipping infrastructure, promote the coordinated and integrated development of the shipping industry, promote the adjustment of transport structure, and deepen reform and innovation. Third, we need to continue innovation-led efforts, speed up the digital transformation of shipping, promote all-round green transformation, and achieve a sound interaction between high-level safety and high-quality development. Fourth, we should continue to carry forward the Silk Road spirit and maritime spirit, enrich the genealogical connotation of maritime spirit, inherit and carry forward the history and culture of shipping, and cultivate a high-quality workforce."Shipping is playing a strong supporting role in China's economic and trade recovery." Xu Lirong, chairman of China Cosco Shipping Group Co., Ltd., said that in the context of the global economic contraction last year, due to the impact of the epidemic, shipping has undertaken the vast majority of China's foreign trade cargo traffic and contributed a lot to the growth of China's total import and export volume of goods trade.Transport water transportation research institute director FeiWeiJun thinks, enter the new stage of development, with high quality to build "binary" new pattern of development requires further new advantages of water transportation, need to do the following: play a inland waterways and coastal water channel "golden waterway" function, make it become the artery of inner loop development; Consolidate the position and role of ocean-going shipping in supporting the high-level opening up and maintaining the stability of the international supply chain, and make it a major channel for the development of external circulation; Enhance the port's modern management and service level, vigorously develop multimodal transport, and make it a major hub of double-cycle linkage development.China communications construction group co., LTD., chairman of Wang Tongzhou said that shipping time large-scale infrastructure construction in our country has been in the past, a new generation with modern science and technology, especially information technology as the support, with wisdom, intelligent navigation, port green channel for shipping "new construction", gradually become a new engine to promote the development of shipping and high quality. Coastal ports have entered an important stage of structure optimization, function expansion, scientific and technological innovation and soft power enhancement. Building an international hub port with global competitiveness has become a new goal, and the construction of smart ports with automated container terminals as the focus has become the mainstream.