An LNG ship industry alliance was established during the LNG ship industrial chain development convention held at Shanghai's Changxing Island, part of the city's efforts to build a world-class shipbuilding and offshore engineering industry cluster, according to official sources. Being the birthplace of China's modern shipbuilding industry, Shanghai saw the scale of its shipbuilding and offshore industry reach 100.7 billion yuan ($14.36 billion) in 2023, and Changxing Island has become the nation's first demonstration base of the sector, with its shipbuilding and offshore engineering industrial output exceeding 51 billion yuan and gathering a slew of large shipyards and marine equipment manufacturing enterprises, the local news portal Shanghai Observer reported. (....)