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ABSTRACT Liu, L.; Song, H.; and Xing, J., 2019. Benchmarking of marine equipment manufacturing industry in Liaoning province. In: Gong, D.; Zhu, H., and Liu, R. (eds.), Selected Topics in Coastal Research: Engineering, Industry, Economy, and Sustainable Development. Journal of Coastal Research, Special Issue No. 94, pp. 838–841. Coconut Creek (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. This article constructs an evaluation index system for the competitiveness of marine equipment manufacturing industry from six aspects: industrial scale, economic benefits, international competitiveness, asset management capabilities, innovation capabilities, and social benefits. And it is measured by 14 relatively objective, complete, and quantifiable indicators. Taking the marine equipment manufacturing industry in 12 provinces and cities such as Liaoning, Jiangsu, Shandong, Guangdong, Shanghai and Zhejiang as the research object, quantify this approach of the competitiveness level of seven sub-sectors in the selected 12 provinces and cities in the marine equipment manufacturing industry based on competitive evaluation theory, then comprehensively evaluated and simply sorted, and based on the research to calculate results. Finally, identify the provinces and cities which has characteristics of individual advantage of competitiveness level. As a benchmark province, which will compare the competitive status with that of Liaoning's marine equipment manufacturing industry in order to find out the gaps and identify the reasons.