Research on the Cultivation Mode for Shipping Talents under the Background of Hainan Free Trade Port Based on Big Data Descriptive Analysis

Abstract

One of the primary duties of vocational education is to serve the needs of development of local economy. As the implementation of the Master Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, many ocean-going ships and shipping companies choose to register in Hainan, resulting in a significant increase in the demand for ship-related talents. For a long time, China has implemented strict registration system for ships, which only registration of vessels owned by local residents or companies are allowed. As a result, more than 2000 units of Chinese-funded international sailing ships choose to register in countries allowing open registration and fly flags of convenience for easier registration and taxes preference. On June 1, 2020, the Chinese government released the Master Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port, putting forward to building more liberal shipping system in Hainan, China. Hainan Free Trade Port International Ship Registry Center has been established in order to facilitate ocean-going ships to register in Hainan with "Yangpu, China" as the registry port, and to attract Chinese-funded vessels under flags of convenience or foreign-funded vessels to register in Hainan.This paper uses descriptive analysis with the big data worldwide of commercial ships of 1000 GT and above released by United Nations Committee on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) 2019 to find out the general condition of Chinese-funded vessels in order to make a prediction of shipping talents demand in Hainan Free Trade Port.The descriptive analysis of big data is the analysis of various characteristics of a set of data in order to describe the characteristics of the measurement sample and the overall characteristics it represents, and to reveal the characteristics with charts, curves and other visual methods, provide advice and reference to user when making decision.The descriptive big data analysis shows that there are 34.91% of Chinese-funded ocean-going ships flying the flag of convenience, while the tonnage of those vessels accounts for 55.9% in 2019. The result reveals that a large number of Chinese-funded ships are sailing under the flag of convenience. The state promptly formulated the "master plan" including to establish international registration system so as to attract Chinese-funded ships to return and register in Hainan. In fact, the latest statistic shows the trend of returning of those Chinese-funded ship is obvious since the implementation of the plan. As a result, the free trade port needs a large number of shipping talents, including seafarers, shore-based management personnel, and other ship-related professionals. However, the cultivation scale of ship-related talents in Hainan cannot meet the huge demand for shipping talents caused by increasing registration of international trading ships and companies.This paper proposed a demand-orientated cultivation mode for shipping talents in higher vocational education in the view of serving the development of local economy under the background of Hainan Free Trade Port.