The establishment of Jimei's colleges of Navigation and Fisheries, the first of their kind in China, was also motivated by the fact that despite China's long coastline, its fisheries were not very productive and its seafarers had little in the way of navigational skills.
大陸首創的私立集美航海、水產學校，也是著眼於大陸海岸線綿長，但卻漁獲不豐，航海技術不振。