South Australia and Shandong Province have established a Sister State Level Relationship since 1986. Adelaide and Qingdao have also established their Friendly Cooperative City status since 2000 and established a Sister City Level Relationship in 2013. Recently, the South Australia Premier Mr Jay Weatherill visited Shandong Province with the largest delegation of South Australian business leaders on a Government trip. There were many synergies between the economies of the two states. Both have strong wine, agricultural, advanced manufacturing and resources sectors.

Aim: To develop collaboration and partnership on marine science and technology R&D, education and industry development between IOC and Flinders University and SA  

Main Research fields of Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Academy of Sciences: 

1.  Resources exploration and sustainable utilization in mariculture 

2.  Key processes of marine ecology and effects on the environment and resources 

3.  Ocean circulation dynamics and its impacts on climate and environment; Ocean waves and their effects on other oceanic processes; Remote sensing and prediction methods of ocean environment 

4.  The evolution and resource potential of the West Pacific continental margin; Process; Exploration of deep-sea environment and life processes 

5.  Algal sciences and biotechnology, enhanced and aquaculture biotechnology in marine mollusks and fish, aquatic animal nutrition and feeds manufacture tech, bio-pharmaceutics and bio-products development, and marine environmental friendly chemistry 

6.  Marine environment monitoring, marine environmental evaluation technologies, engineering geology, hydrology, meteorology marine equipment and system integration of research and exploration, environmental evaluation and environmental evaluation technology research and development 

7.  The study of taxonomy, phylogeny, biodiversity and biogeography of marine organisms from China seas. 

8.  Marine Corrosion and Protection