Third national ocean energy symposium was held in Wenling, Zhejiang Province on 28-29 August. Over 100 researches including world well-known scholars in marine science attended the symposium. Professor You Yage, associated professor Wu Bijun, and other 6 members from Guangzhou Institute Energy Conversion (GIEC) took part in the symposium.

The symposium was divided into five sessions, mainly focusing onocean renewable energy resource survey and assessment, theoretical and technical research of ocean energy conversion, island renewable energy development and etc. the newest research progress and achievement in the field of wave energy, tide energy, tidal stream energy and etc were presented by 22 specialists and scholars. Dr. Zhang Yunqiu and Zhang Yaqun, from GIEC gave presentations, respectively.