Xu Zuyuan, Maritime Goodwill Ambassador of the International Maritime Organization and former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Transportation, said that after recent years of development, inland water transport is playing an increasingly important role in the construction of China's comprehensive transportation system.

　　For China's inland water transport currently exists in some of the development of obstacles and difficulties, Xu Zuyuan puts forward four suggestions: First, to increase investment in inland water transport infrastructure construction from the policy to accelerate the formation of a network of waterways, trunk and branch convergence, ports, ports, better modern inland water transport system; Second, to give full play to the government and the market, "two hands! Secondly, we should give full play to the role of the government and the market to realize the basic environment for the high-quality development of inland water transportation; thirdly, we should increase the investment in innovation of inland water transportation, and make inland water transportation the core of the circulation of domestic demand with new technologies and new modes; fourthly, we should strengthen, expand and optimize the unified service brand of inland water transportation in various ways, and create the main body of the operation of a large scale and good services; lastly, we should adhere to the principle of "common grasp of the great protection". Lastly, we should adhere to the principle of "common grasp of great protection", and realize both economic and social benefits.

　　Liu Liang, Director of Yangtze River Shipping Administration of the Ministry of Transportation and Communications, said in his speech that the Yangtze River shipping has a long history, and in the future, it will make efforts to enhance the comprehensive transportation efficiency and meet the diversified transportation needs, so as to comprehensively promote the high-quality development of Yangtze River shipping.

　　Zhao Jun, Deputy Secretary General of Hubei Provincial People's Government and Director of the Counselor's Office, mentioned in his speech that the current Hubei Provincial Government attaches great importance to the work of water transportation construction, and is vigorously promoting a series of shipping construction work such as multimodal transportation development. He hoped that through the first China Inland Waterway Port, Navigation and Logistics Development Forum, he could exchange experiences with industry experts, scholars and other guests, and take this opportunity to promote the high-quality development of the Yangtze River Economic Belt with all efforts.

　　After the opening ceremony, the release ceremony of "Accelerating the Construction of "Double Circulation" New Pattern and Facilitating the Construction of Chinese Modernization--Inland Waterway Port, Navigation and Logistics Linkage Development (Wuhan) Initiative" was held. The Initiative mainly covers five aspects: First, the Initiative takes inland waterway shipping development as a powerful hand to smooth the domestic and international double-cycle, aligns with the same development goal, and promotes the high-quality development of inland waterway port, navigation and logistics industry; second, the Initiative obtains breakthroughs in the fields of inland waterway environmental protection ships, intelligent ports and logistics tracking; third, the Initiative establishes the mechanism of high-level communication among upstream and downstream enterprises, such as shipping lines, ports, logistics and cargo owners; and fourth Fourth, the initiative to explore the construction of a public platform for inland waterway shipping, establish unified data standards, unified service model, and unified external display; Fifth, the initiative to establish the "Inland Waterway Port, Navigation and Logistics Development Forum" as a professional seminar and business cooperation platform that is well-developed domestically and radiates overseas.

　　Mr. Tu Shanfeng, Secretary of the Party Committee and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Hubei Port Group Co., Ltd. introduced the overall development of Hubei Port Group and the opening up of routes and channels under the title of "Exploration and Practice of High-quality Development of Inland Waterway Ports and Navigation". He gave four suggestions on how to accelerate the high-quality development of inland river ports and navigation: firstly, strengthen the top-level design, earnestly implement the "Outline for the Development of Inland Navigation", and build a modern inland waterway system with trunk and branch connection, and river and sea connection; secondly, set up an inland river port and navigation enterprise alliance with the participation of domestic ports, shipping, multimodal transport operators, supply chain, financial institutions and other main bodies to strengthen the information communication and interconnection, and realize win-win cooperation; thirdly, vigorously develop the inland river port and navigation enterprises alliance to achieve a win-win cooperation. win-win cooperation; third, vigorously develop multimodal transportation; fourth, promote the development of logistics clusters to industrial clusters and economic clusters.