The year 2025 marks a crucial year for Qihang Chuangzhi (Qingdao) Marine Equipment Technology Co., Ltd. as it anchors itself to the national strategy of building a maritime power, using innovation as its rudder and hard work as its sail to achieve leapfrog development. Facing the era of the booming global marine economy, the company has consistently adhered to the core principle of 'pursuing outstanding quality and providing excellent service,' achieving fruitful results across technology R&D, market expansion, industry-university-research integration, team building, and social responsibility. As the brilliant chapter of 2025 is about to come to a successful close and the prelude to 2026 is ready to be grandly unveiled, let us look back together, recount the remarkable milestones of 2025, draw immense strength to continue advancing in marine exploration, and move hand in hand toward a more magnificent deep-blue future.
In 2025, the company centered around its three main business lines: deep-sea aquaculture equipment, fishery machinery, and offshore leisure and cultural tourism platforms, successfully advancing and completing a series of landmark projects that demonstrated strong execution capability and engineering strength.
As a core participant in the national “863” Program and the 13th Five-Year Plan deep-sea intelligent net cage project, the company’s developed liftable net cage system was successfully applied and stably operated in the Tangshan sea area. This demonstration project represents another major breakthrough for the company in the field of core deep-sea aquaculture equipment, signifying its industry-leading position in intelligent and adaptive net cage development and engineering practice.
The company’s developed interception floating boom has been promoted and applied in nuclear power plant projects, demonstrating practical value in equipment integration applications. Meanwhile, the Qingdao “Offshore Palace Floating Wharf” project was successfully completed and delivered, becoming another benchmark project for the company in the field of aquatic leisure and tourism facilities. The product lines of water leisure platforms and floating wharfs have thus been further enriched, providing more diverse and reliable solutions for coastal tourism and fishery infrastructure upgrades.
During the year, the company successfully delivered the comprehensive aquaculture and tourism project in Kiribati. This project integrated floating wharfs, square storm-resistant net cages, and leisure aquaculture cages, and innovatively incorporated multifunctional leisure platforms with photovoltaic power generation platforms. It not only provided clients with diversified industrial solutions and promoted local sustainable fishery development but also became a model of Chinese advanced marine equipment and green energy technology collaborating overseas to serve countries along the Belt and Road.
At the same time, the company successfully completed the construction of the world's largest inland water net cage (300 meters in circumference) in Yixing, Jiangsu. This project overcame a series of technical challenges related to the construction, installation, and stability control of large flexible structures in inland water conditions, marking the maturity of applying deep-sea net cage engineering experience to open inland waters and pioneering a modern aquaculture scenario for large inland water surfaces.

From the core net cage facility manufacturing to the integration of high-standard recirculating aquaculture systems, the company, empowered by the expert teams from Zhejiang University and the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute, has built a comprehensive, full-chain solution covering "high-end equipment—key technologies—intelligent aquaculture." This deeply integrated innovation model combining industry, academia, and research not only strategically enhances the value of the industrial chain but also establishes long-term win-win relationships with customers based on technological trust.

The company adheres to technological self-reliance and self-improvement as its fundamental driving force, achieving remarkable results in technological breakthroughs by 2025.  
Significant progress has been made in areas such as the dynamic response analysis of lifting and lowering cages and floating structures in complex sea conditions. These achievements have been applied to a new generation of products, significantly enhancing the safety, durability, and environmental adaptability of the equipment.  
The company has also carried out specialized research and development on new wind- and wave-resistant oyster cages to improve their resistance to storms and waves and increase suspension aquaculture capacity. This project aims to overcome the limitations of traditional oyster farming facilities in terms of stability, durability, eco-friendliness, and space utilization. Through innovations in materials, structure, and fixing methods, it provides crucial equipment support and technical reserves for the modernization and ecological upgrading of oyster and other shellfish farming in China.Open collaboration is an accelerator for the company's development. In 2025, we further deepened our mutually beneficial relationship with top research institutes.
In June 2025, the company held the "Collective Intelligence and Empowerment: Expanding the Deep Blue Together" strategic cooperation and industry-university-research innovation base inauguration ceremony with the Yellow Sea Fisheries Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. This collaboration marks the upgrade of our more than twenty years of project cooperation into a strategic partnership encompassing joint technological research, pilot testing and commercialization of results, and high-end talent cultivation. The company appointed senior experts from the Yellow Sea Institute as senior advisors to ensure that our R&D directions resonate with industry frontiers.
In December 2025, the company signed a strategic cooperation agreement with the Freshwater Fisheries Research Center of the Chinese Academy of Fishery Sciences. The signing of this agreement signifies that our cooperation has entered a new stage of institutionalization, systematization, and strategic development. It aims to promote the high-quality internationalization of China's fishery technology and equipment, facilitate the sustainable use of global fishery resources, and contribute further to building a shared ocean future.

The company actively engages in the construction of the industry ecosystem, steadily enhancing its brand influence and industry discourse power.
The company made a major appearance at authoritative domestic and international exhibitions such as the China International Fisheries Expo, Xinjiang Fisheries Expo, and the Uganda World Aquaculture Society. Products on display, including gravity cages, leisure cages, floating leisure platforms, and floating breakwaters, attracted widespread attention from industry peers around the world with their full range of innovative marine equipment and cutting-edge technical solutions.
As an important industry participant, the company, relying on solid research and development capabilities and outstanding project achievements, continues to earn industry recognition. By actively fulfilling its industry responsibilities, the company has been deeply involved in several industry policy discussions and demonstrations of medium- and long-term development plans, continuously contributing professional wisdom and strength to the high-quality and sustainable development of the marine economy.

In 2025, we are committed to building a cohesive, combat-ready, and growth-oriented "Maritime Iron Army."
The company successfully organized multiple cultural activities, including tourism to Yunnan, a lantern pressing activity, a half marathon, and a fun sports games event. This carefully crafted series of cultural programs spans landscapes and desks, linking perseverance with joy, and profoundly reflects the company's strategic investment in the physical and mental well-being and holistic development of its employees. These activities not only effectively strengthen team belonging and cohesion but also organically integrate the warmth of "humanistic care" into the company's rigorous and pragmatic engineering foundation, shaping a unique organizational character that balances strength with flexibility and a continuous growth momentum.
The company has established a talent development system that values both "professional hard skills" and "career soft skills." It systematically conducts specialized knowledge training on key supporting equipment, ensuring that the team stays up-to-date with technical details across the industry chain. Meanwhile, specialized training in business etiquette and professional conduct for market and business teams has effectively enhanced the company's professional image in high-end markets and international collaborations. This series of "internal and external cultivation" initiatives continuously optimizes the team's professional structure and systematically stimulates organizational vitality and comprehensive competitiveness.

Standing at a new starting point, Qihang Chuangzhi will continue to be guided by the strategy of building a maritime power, focusing on the research, development, and manufacturing of intelligent and green core equipment for deep and distant seas. We will continue to deepen industry-university-research cooperation and accelerate the transformation of scientific and technological achievements; vigorously expand international markets and enhance the brand of Chinese marine engineering equipment; and continuously nurture a people-oriented corporate culture, stimulating innovation vitality throughout the organization.
We look forward to working hand in hand with all employees, partners, and all sectors of society to jointly explore the mysteries of the ocean, make rational use of marine resources, and contribute new and greater efforts to the sustainable and high-quality development of the global marine economy!