海水养殖业是我国水产业的一个重要组成部分。新中国成立以前,海水养殖生产的基础很差,养殖技术落后,产量不足万吨。新中国成立后,社会主义制度的建立,为海水养殖的大发展提供了优越的环境条件。40年来,在党和政府的领导下,经过沿海广大干部、职工和渔(农)民的积极努力,海水养殖业得到 Marine aquaculture is an important part of China’s aquaculture industry. Before the founding of New China, the basis of mariculture was poor, with backward cultivation techniques and less than 10,000 tons of output. After the founding of New China, the establishment of the socialist system has provided superior environmental conditions for the great development of mariculture. Over the past 40 years, under the leadership of the party and the government and through the active efforts of the cadres, workers and fishermen (farmers) along the coast, the marine aquaculture industry has been