Prof. Chen Jianming , Director of the Institute of Oceanography, Minjiang University, chaired the forum, in which eight keynote speakers, namely, Dr Toe Aung, Deputy Director General of Public Relations and Information Department, Yangon City Development Committee, Myanmar, Mr. Alfred Nakatsuma, Adviser for the Clean Cities Blue Ocean Project, Ms. Analisa Low, Ambassador of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago to China, Mr. Chen Nengwang, Director of Department of Environmental Science, Xiamen University, Mr. Jose Marti Alvarez Hidalgo, Consul General of the Republic of Costa Rica in Shanghai, Mr. Genki Terauchi, Senior Researcher of Special Monitoring and Coastal Environmental Assessment Regional Activity Centre, Northwest Pacific Action Plan, UN Environment Programme, Mr. Chen Zhongjie, President of Hongdong Fishery Co., Ltd., and Mr. Zeng Zhongcheng, Chief Operating Officer of Tatwah Smartech Co., Ltd., shared achievements and experience of various nations in the development of the “Smart Ocean”, to promote the role of marine-related science and technology in the marine economic development in countries and regions along the 21st-Century Maritime Silk Road. After the keynote speeches, participants of the Forum also carried out free discussion.