While offshore fever sweeping Chinese shipbuilding industries, Nantong's active offshore business appears to be of a great help to stabilization of shipbuilding and related industries in the area.
During the first ten months of this year, Nantong's overall production value of offshore facilities stood on CNY 12.24bn ($1.97bn),  by 22.1% year-on-year. Total delivery of offshore-related and specialized ships/units increased by 9.6% year-on-year.
COSCO Nantong Shipyard was awarded for its design and technology of deep-sea cylindrical drilling platform in February this year.
Besides, offshore-specialized builder, accounting for one third of Chinese overall shipbuilders, such as Nantong Mingde Heavy Industry, Daoda Heavy Industry, among others, are making progress in Nantong.