On October 22, 2016, the third China (Tianjin) marine industry innovation and development international forum (OIC2016) was held in Tianjin. This forum discussed the development experience of marine industries and the characteristics of marine industrial park, the opportunities and challenges, policies, planning, management, technology platform and investment strategies, and put up suggestions to establish marine industrial park system with Chinese characteristics. The meeting sponsored by the People's government of Binhai New Area of Tianjin City, Peking University, China Regional Science Association, and the international association of marine engineers. “The marine industry and city planning forum” was undertook by school of architecture and design of Beijing Jiaotong University and Beijing Jiaotong University Institute of urban planning and design. School of architecture and design  of Beijing Jiaotong University vice president She Gaohong, vice director of  urban and rural planning department of Zhang Chun, and  six experts from the University of Cincinnati,  University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill participated in the main venue and made speeches.   
Under the country "The Belt and Road" background, Beijing Jiaotong University and University of Cincinnati, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill experts took part in marine industry and city planning forum, reflecting the important roles for city planning discipline in the service to national strategy and guidance to the planning aspects, expanding from the Silk Road to the Maritime Silk Road. In recent years, with the construction of high-speed rail, Beijing Jiaotong University have played a leading role in the related fields in Silk Road. The forum discussed experience about American city and Chinese traffic infrastructure and city planning in the harbor city construction, combined Beijing Jiaotong University advantage related disciplines and opportunity with the development of Maritime Silk Road, and became an important milepost from land to sea strategy development. As more and more countries pay attention to coastal city construction in the "The Belt and Road", and valued "13th Five-Year" about marine economic development planning and marine industrial park development with national characteristics , regional and city planning will play a greater role in rational layout, coordination, and intelligence development.