Demands and challenges for construction of marine infrastructures in China

doi:10.1007/s11709-022-0839-8

Front. Struct. Civ. Eng.

2022, Vol. 16

Issue (5) : 551-563 https://doi.org/10.1007/s11709-022-0839-8

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Demands and challenges for construction of marine infrastructures in China

Huajun LI^1,²(

), Yong LIU^1,², Bingchen LIANG^1,², Fushun LIU^1,², Guoxiang WU¹, Junfeng DU¹, Huimin HOU¹, Aijun LI¹, Luming SHI¹

¹. College of Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China
². Shandong Province Key Laboratory of Ocean Engineering, Ocean University of China, Qingdao 266100, China

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Abstract

The oceans are crucial to human civilization. They provide core support for exploitation and utilization of marine space, resources, and energy. Thus, marine infrastructures are vital to a nation’s economic sustainable development. To this end, this article first describes the main challenges in current ocean utilization, and then reviews the China’s ocean engineering progress. As such, six major sectors are evaluated: 1) global climate change and marine environment, 2) comprehensive utilization of marine space, 3) marine transportation infrastructure interconnection, 4) ocean clean energy development and maricultural facilities, 5) ecological crisis and marine engineering countermeasures, and 6) marine infrastructure operation safety and maintenance. Finally, perspectives on future directions of ocean utilization and marine infrastructure construction in China are provided.

Keywords marine infrastructures ocean engineering exploitation of marine resource coastal development emerging marine industries technological challenges

Corresponding Author(s): Huajun LI

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Tongcan Cui and Yizhe Hou contributed equally to this work.

Just Accepted Date: 20 June 2022 Online First Date: 01 August 2022 Issue Date: 30 August 2022

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Huajun LI,Yong LIU,Bingchen LIANG, et al. Demands and challenges for construction of marine infrastructures in China[J]. Front. Struct. Civ. Eng., 2022, 16(5): 551-563.

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Fig.1 Implementation process of marine spatial planning (reproduced from Ref. [28]).

Fig.2 Standardized cost analysis of global offshore wind levels (data source: Bloomberg NEF. Note that Chinese mainland and France include two lines, which represent two different estimates of cost officially released by each government).

Fig.3 Typical deep-sea mariculture platform facilities: (a) deep-sea fishery Ocean Farm 1 [58]; (b) deep Blue No. 1 [59]; (c) semisubmersible deep-sea fishery [60]; (d) deepwater mariculture ship Havfarm [61].

Fig.4 “Offshore oil and land production” road island project in Qingdong 5 block of Shengli Oilfield in Bohai Bay (photo source: Sinopec Petroleum Engineering Design Co., Ltd.). (a) Road island project; (b) open-air sea entry way.

Fig.5 Hailong Bay “Port to Beach” Project in Rizhao City, Shandong Province, China. (a) Before the project remediation; (b) after the project remediation.

Fig.6 Marine infrastructure health monitoring.

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