City planners hail the power of prawns

The port city of Zhanjiang in western Guangdong province has laid detailed plans to become an oceanic powerhouse.

Its administrators envision that sea-related output will hit 180 billion yuan ($29.27 billion) a year by 2015, some 32 percent of the city's GDP and more than double the 85.48 billion yuan recorded in 2010. The figure was 130.84 billion yuan last year, up 12.6 percent from 2012.

Local authorities want the ocean industry to become an economic pillar as Zhanjiang becomes "a model city in ocean economic development in the country in the following years".