Shanghai, July 3- Although a coastal city, Shanghai citizens are more familiar to Suzhou River and Huangpu River rather than surrounding waters. 3070 Ocean Music Festival kicked off yesterday at China Maritime Museum to deliver a message of loving and protecting the ocean.

The name of the music festival symbolizes the coverage rates of land and water area on the earth surface, respectively 30% and 70%. During the festival, musicians from Norwegian Academy of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music provided visitors a feast of six live instrumental performances, perfectly integrating music, maritime history and culture.

China Maritime Museum, joint hands with Oriental Danology Institute and the Norwegian Consulate in Shanghai, started Navigation Season Thematic Program 2016 from July 1 and will last to October 31, with the music festival as its opening activity.

More events are followed including maritime knowledge competition, the Olympic show & sailing experience, ocean-theme film screening and maritime arts workshop, etc., providing maritime carnival full of both eastern and western marine culture and diversified interactive activities.