Yantai charts five-year course

On May 9, Yantai unveiled a marine economic zone development plan that calls for ocean-related industries in the city to make products valued at 220 billion yuan by 2015, an average annual growth of 15 percent.

"Yantai is speeding up construction of a marine economic system," Yantai Mayor Zhang Jiangting told China Daily.

"We are committed to building Yantai into the most influential marine economic zone at home and abroad within five to 10 years," Zhang stressed.