Shanghai aims to become a world-class cruise hub

Shanghai aims to become a world-class cruise hub


Shanghai will build itself into a world-class cruise hub by 2035 and aim to attract three million cruise tourists annually by 2025, according to the Shanghai Action Plan for Promoting the High-Quality Development of the International Cruise Economy (2023-25) released by the municipal government last week.To get more breaking news shanghai, you can visit citynewsservice.cn official website.

The city has also set an ambitious target to become a cruise tourism destination with international influence and a cruise economic centre with global resource allocation capabilities in the Asia-Pacific region by 2035.

The action plan includes specific targets to build a cruise hub port, a headquarters port and a manufacturing port, said Zhu Min, director of the city's Commission of Commerce, at a press conference last Friday.

Among the 20 measures outlined in the action plan, the development of the cruise headquarters economy tops the list, which focuses on attracting and establishing the headquarters of both Chinese and foreign cruise companies.

Apart from improving the quality of local cruise brands, the plan is to attract foreign-funded cruise companies to set up their headquarters here and form an agglomeration of international cruise company headquarters.

Since the Ministry of Transport issued a plan in March to resume international cruises after a three-year hiatus due to the Covid-19 pandemic, Shanghai has taken the lead in resuming cruises.
"International experience shows that the cruise market starts to blossom when the per capita gross domestic product (GDP) reaches US$5,000 (RM23,250) and develops rapidly when the GDP per capita exceeds US$10,000," said Zhang Jie, deputy director of the Shanghai Municipal Commission of Commerce.

As for Shanghai, the per capita GDP has exceeded US$25,000, which has laid the foundation for the high-quality development of the cruise industry.

"Shanghai has already established good cooperation with the international cruise industry before the pandemic, and it is believed that more international cruise companies will accelerate their return to the Chinese market," said Zhang.

Liu Ping, deputy director of the Municipal Commission of Economy and Information Technology, said that large cruise ships are widely recognised as a high-tech product.

The Adora Magic City, China's first domestically built large cruise ship, completed its first trial voyage in July and will start its maiden voyage next year.

Liu said the city will speed up the construction of independent industrial chains and make full use of the advantages of China State Shipbuilding Corp to enhance the independent design and construction capabilities of large cruise ships.

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