China’s maritime GDP to reach more than 110 trillion yuan in 2025!

The Chinese Ministry of Natural Resources released the ‘2025 China Marine Economy Statistics Bulletin’. According to the bulletin, the national maritime GDP reached 110.18 trillion yuan in 2025, up 5.5 percent from 2024 and accounting for 7.9 percent of the national GDP.

From the perspective of industrial structure, the value added of primary, secondary and tertiary marine industries accounted for 4.5 per cent, 37.2 per cent and 58.3 per cent of the gross marine product respectively.

Shan Chun, director of the ministry’s maritime strategic planning and economy department, said 2025 was the last year of the ’14th Five-Year Plan’ (2021-2025). During the entire period of the ’14th Five-Year Plan’, China’s overall maritime economic strength has been strengthened and improved, which is especially manifested in the ‘Three Accelerated Transformations’, including quality and efficiency, innovation-driven development, coordinated land and sea conservation, etc.

According to this official, China’s maritime economy is rapidly transitioning toward a quality and efficiency-oriented model. China has ranked first in the world in total marine aquatic product output for many years in a row, has one of the world’s largest ports, and accounts for more than one-third of the world’s total maritime transportation volume and container flow.

In addition, its market share in ships and marine engineering equipment exceeds 50 percent of the global market, and its new and cumulative installed capacity of offshore wind power exceeds 50 percent of the global market.

It is also reported that in the year 2025, the newly approved marine and insular use area in China reached 3,72,000 hectares, involving an investment of more than 921.8 billion yuan, thereby ensuring the needs of projects such as fisheries, oil and gas, wind energy, etc.

In addition, the level of maritime public services in China is continuously improving. For the entire year of 2025, 42 typhoons and marine disaster warnings were predicted and 334 marine disaster warnings were issued.

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