Recently, Shandong's Qingdao City has introduced the Twenty Measures for Optimizing the Business Environment in the Marine Development Field of Qingdao City. As per the document, Qingdao has formulated specific measures around the "Six Special Improvement Actions" such as optimizing the business environment for the marine field so as to constantly build the service brand of "Convenient Marine Services" and create a first-class business environment that is market-oriented, law-based, and international.

In view of the existing needs and problems in the field of sea use and development, Qingdao will adhere to the principle that production factors stay with the projects they are allocated to, optimize the approval procedures for sea use for projects, and make constant efforts to better ensure the supply of sea use factors. At the same time, Qingdao will standardize, normalize and facilitate administrative licensing, keep improving the efficiency of approval, and create an environment for enterprises and people in which fairer and more efficient approval services are ensured.

Besides, to advance the effective implementation of the 15 specific measures to support the high-quality development of the marine economy, Qingdao will provide support for modern fishery, shipping services, and other industries to realize industrial transformation and upgrading and for high-end ships and marine engineering equipment, marine biomedicine, marine new energy, and other emerging marine industries to make breakthroughs. Qingdao will also promote the agglomeration of marine talents and the transformation of marine sci-tech achievements and create a total factor ecology that supports the high-quality development of the marine economy.