Since what China's marine economic output exceeds that of the United States and Japan

From 1976 China's marine economic output value exceeded the United States and Japan.

1. Scale of China's marine economy and development growth rate

China's marine economy has entered a period of stable growth, and its pulling effect on the economy of the coastal areas has been increasing. Figure 1 shows the changes in China's marine GDP and its share in the GDP of coastal areas since 2001. 2012 was a period of rapid growth in the marine economy, with the scale of the marine economy almost quadrupling between 2003 and 2011, and the average annual economic growth rate at constant prices reaching 18.21%. After 2012, the marine economy shifted to a high-quality development, and the growth rate of marine The growth rate of the gross economic product is also being adjusted, and the growth rate of the marine economy has dropped to less than 8%, and the growth rate has dropped to less than 7% since 2016, with the gross economic product of the marine economy reaching 8,941.5 billion yuan in 2019. With the rising economic growth rate in the central and western regions and their increasing contribution to GDP growth, the share of the gross marine economic product in GDP has been on a slightly decreasing trend since 2014, from 9.54% in 2014 to about 9.00% in 2019. However, the economic driving effect of the marine economy on the coastal provinces has been increasing, and the proportion of the GDP of the coastal provinces has been on a steady upward trend since 2016, reaching 17.13% in 2019, with an increase of 0.74 percentage points in the proportion over a period of four years