From the water to the underwater: Marine equipment paves a new course | OpenTalk live broadcast preview
In 2025, the "deep-sea technology" was listed as the core of emerging industries for the first time in the government work report, and the central government also emphasized the need to "promote the high-quality development of the marine economy." Stocks related to the marine economy once triggered a wave of limit-up in the capital market, and many startup companies in the field received financing within the year. Driven by both policies and the market, the marine technology track is showing the huge potential of a trillion-yuan blue ocean.
In terms of technological breakthroughs, marine technology is moving from "shallow-sea exploration" to "deep-sea development." Key technologies such as underwater robots, intelligent sensors, and subsea data centers are accelerating their iterations, driving the rapid rise of emerging industries such as marine equipment manufacturing and marine new energy. At the same time, breakthroughs are being made in underlying technologies such as deep-sea materials and underwater energy power, laying the foundation for building a "land-sea-air-space integrated" marine digital base.
In this global deep-blue race, China has ranked among the international forefront thanks to continuous R & D investment, rich application scenarios, and a complete industrial ecosystem. However, as a cutting-edge field with a high degree of multidisciplinary integration, marine technology still faces challenges from extreme environments such as high pressure, low temperature, and darkness, as well as multiple bottlenecks such as the autonomy of key technologies, the shortage of high-end talents, and the control of commercialization costs. How to achieve efficient transformation from technology to industry? How to balance R & D investment and large-scale application? How to build a sustainable innovation model for the marine economy? These issues still need to be addressed jointly by the industry.
At 17:00 on Wednesday, December 17, 2025, 36Kr OpenTalk will host a live event titled "From the Water Surface to Underwater: Marine Equipment Opens a New Channel." Two guests, Zhu Jiannan, Founder & CEO of Ouka Intelligent Vessel, and Gao Wanliang, Founder, Director & CEO of Haoye Technology Group, will be specially invited. They will focus on two major themes, "Embodied on the Water Surface: AI Technology and Industrialization Logic of Intelligent Ships" and "Development Direction of Underwater Equipment," and discuss hot topics such as intelligent ships, unmanned surface vessel systems, underwater thrusters, and new energy ship power systems to explore the "breaking points" and "future trends" of marine technology.
Entrepreneurs, investors, and practitioners interested in marine technology are welcome to scan the QR code on the event poster below to register, interact with the two guests, and jointly explore new drivers for the development of the blue economy.
