本文选取了在国际上比较有代表性的美国旧金山湾区、日本东京湾区、韩国釜山湾区和新加坡等4 个区域，从区域基本情况、海洋经济发展状况、海洋经济产业结构和海洋经济发展经验4 个维度进行比较，发现各个区域在海洋经济发展经验方面存在共通之处：包括科技创新成为支撑海洋经济发展的新动力、以滨海旅游业为首的海洋服务业成为新的发展方向、注重海洋生态保护，倡导可持续发展成为全球共识、各区域普遍重视陆海统筹发展，区域内城市功能分工明确等等。

We compare the basic economy, marine economic development, marine economic industrial structure and the marine economic development experience among the bay area in San Francisco, Tokyo, Busan and Singapore. We find several common marine economy development experiences including the innovation of science and technology as the support of marine economic development, the marine services leading by coastal tourism as a new developing direction, the attention to protect marine ecological, the consensus to sustainable development, the coordinated development plans for land and sea, the clear division of regional urban functions and so on.