The theme of the forum is "Open, Inclusive, Mutually Beneficial and Win-win". More than 200 diplomatic envoys and representatives from China, Fiji, Samoa, Vanuatu, Tonga and other countries and regions, representatives of international organizations, business and academic circles exchanged in-depth views on building a marine partnership.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) released the Report on Intertidal Zone Analysis and Related Work in the Yellow Sea and Bohai Sea.

Qiao Fangli, Academician of the International Eurasian Academy of Sciences and Deputy Director of First Institute of Oceanography, of the Ministry of Natural Resources, Zhang Ye, Party Secretary and President of Shanghai Shipping Exchange, Wei Zhiqiang, Vice President of Ocean University of China, and Yin Jian, Deputy General Manager of Qingdao Port International Co., Ltd. were invited to to share China's wisdom and China plan in the marine partnership.

The guests expressed that they would work together to build a community of marine destiny, construct a more fair, reasonable and balanced global ocean governance system, promote multi-level, wide-ranging and sustainable marine cooperation between Qingdao and Pacific island countries, support the "Ocean Decade" International Cooperation Center to actively participate in and promote the construction of marine partnership, support Qingdao West Coast New Area to strive to be a leading example in marine cooperation with Pacific island countries, and support Ocean University of China to establish "Marine Big Data Center" in Qingdao West Coast New Area.

The forum will actively promote Qingdao and Pacific island countries to carry out multi-level, wide-ranging and sustainable marine cooperation with the ocean as a link, and make new contributions to building a closer community of destiny between China and Pacific island countries and deepening the construction of the “21st Century Maritime Silk Road”.