Nantong, Jiangsu Qidong River, from Chong Kai Bridge to the Yangtze River Estuary overlooking the East, dense berth and crane buildings, especially in twos and threes layout of orange gantry crane is particularly conspicuous.

More than 100 meters high, gantry crane, huge body self elevation drilling platform is scaffolding and all kinds of building tools surrounded, beneath a yellow hardhat welders are hull to climb.

This article 23 kilometers of Yangtze River north wing of the coastline, and concentrate distribution COSCO shipyard, Zhenhua heavy industries, Landao marine, Honghua ocean greatly small 20 ship manufacturing enterprises. Just part of the open-air shipbuilding area has been vacant, some factories even weeds, which had become the country's largest production base of the marine platform.

From "boatman" to "sea", this change was started in 2008. And by 2010, in order to receive orders, the amount of orders and the construction of the volume of capacity - on behalf of the three major indicators of the competitiveness of the shipbuilding industry, China's shipbuilding industry has surpassed South Korea, becoming the world's first.

But the global economic downturn, so that the entire shipping industry almost collapsed, "the sea" is a way out of the market.

Under the guidance of the market and policy driven, China's "marine" equipment orders accounted for a share of the global share, from 5% in 2010 soared to 35% in the first 9 months of 2014, once again become the world's first.

"In the 'sea of workers' the most popular in previous years, the industry estimates that the global market demand for the next few years to reach $80000000000. Did not expect this year to become the most difficult year of the sea industry market." COSCO shipbuilding industry company Party committee work department minister Yang Qinghua told the Oriental Outlook Weekly, in addition to a number of state-owned enterprises and more advanced private shipbuilding enterprises, and now most of the small and medium ship enterprises are facing management, capital chain rupture dilemma, some of the difficulties of even entering bankruptcy reorganization."

The reason is the continued decline in international oil prices, the global "sea industry" market by its impact on the demand for a sharp decline. Since 2014, both the drilling platform, production platform or marine market, there are a total turnover of various types of marine equipment 407 (ship), turnover of $41980000000, down from 65000000000 in 2013 to an average of 4 u."

"Within the next 3 years, the industry will face a polarized market reshuffle." Chen Jun, deputy general manager of Shanghai Waigaoqiao Shipbuilding Company believes that "under the current situation, the hand is' marine 'orders more than 10 enterprises can survive, if only one or two' marine 'orders, it is easy to collapse."

"This round of reshuffle after the end, also based on success in the Chinese 'marine' market, perhaps the only remaining less than 10." He said.