On October 12, the 10th Cross-straits Maritime University President Forum on Blue Ocean Strategy & Marine Sciences and Humanities Workshop, themed by “Marine Talent Cultivation and Marine Eco-civilization Construction”, was held at Dalian Ocean University. More than 100 persons, including presidents of 15 marine-related colleges and universities and experts and scholars from related units on both sides of the Taiwan Straits, attended the forum. SHOU President Cheng Yudong attended the president forum, and Yan Yunfeng from the College of Economics and Management and Guo Qian from the College of Marine Culture and Law attended the Marine Sciences and Humanities Workshop, and gave their speeches.

The Cross-straits Maritime University President Forum on Blue Ocean Strategy & Marine Sciences and Humanities Workshop was jointlyinitiated by maritime universities on both sides of the Taiwan Straits in 2010, with the purpose of promoting the development and exchanges of maritime education, science & technology, and culture on both sides. The forum has successfully further strengthened cross-straits exchanges and cooperation, consolidated the achievements of academic cooperation and exchanges, and greatly driven the development of China’s maritime education and science & technology causes.