The 6th Yingxue Forum Successfully Held

May 29, 2012

The forum was divided into two parts, the first part presided over by Prof. Ching-Ta Chuang and Prof. Ji Yicheng, Director of Center for Island Development. Xu Minqi, lecturer from Taiwan Ocean University first made a speech entitled "How to Work out Win-win Strategies for Jinmen and Xiamen to Develop Sea Sightseeing and Leisure Fishery". He analyzed the sea sightseeing industry in Jinmen and Xiamen from the perspectives of development tendency, feasibility and development opportunities and strategies, based on which he put forward suggestions for the common development of the sea sightseeing industry in the two cities. Zhang Yue, postgraduate student from Master of Marine Affairs Program (MMA), Xiamen University introduced sustainable development based on Integrated Coastal Management (ICM) with Gulangyu Island as an example. She demonstrated that through three rounds of ICM implementation, Gulangyu made remarkable progress in resource conservation, environmental monitoring, cultural heritage preservation and many other aspects. Such experience could be a useful reference for other islands to develop sustainable tourism. After Zhang Yues introduction, Fang Yuan and He Shuai, also postgraduate students from Xiamen University, made presentations from the perspectives of the development of marine culture industry and taxation policies respectively, and both interested the audience greatly.

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