Strategic Thinking and Theoretical Practice …
709
more than 4000 hectares of restored wetlands, thus curbing the ecological
degradation of coastlines, coastal wetlands and key bays.
Although the overall quality of China’s marine environment has stabilized and
been improved, and our local ecosystems restored, we are still at the peak of pollution
emissions and environmental risks as well as the period of ecological degradation
superimposed onto frequent disasters, all of which present serious threats to our
marine ecological environment. Therefore, we must pay heed to marine ecological
conservation, curb marine environmental pollution, and preserve marine biodiversity
to keep the ocean clean and beautiful.
2 Overall Thinking and Strategic Arrangement of Marine
Environmental Protection in a New Era
1. New requirements of the Party Central Committee for marine environmental protection
Since the 18th National Congress, China has incorporated the building of an ecological civilization into the overall layout of its Five-sphere Integrated Plan for realizing
socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. The Party Central Committee
has promulgated a series of important documents, such as the Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization, the Overall Plan for the Reform
of the Ecological Civilization System, and the Measures for Evaluation and Assessment of the Goals Achieved under the Construction of Ecological Civilization. The
Committee has also made major decisions and deployments to enhance ecological environment protection, improve ecological civilization, and build a beautiful
China, and has incorporated the requirements for ecological civilization and building
a beautiful China into the Constitution, thus laying a firm foundation for Xi Jinping
Thought on Ecological Civilization, expanding and deepening the construction of
ecological civilization, offering guidance for continued ecological and environmental
protection, and providing guidelines for conserving marine habitats in a new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has clearly pointed out that “how the ocean industry
develops and whether the ocean issues are handled well are related to the survival and
development of our people, as well as the prosperity of our country,” and made a series
of important expositions on building China as a maritime power while protecting our
marine ecological environment. The 18th and 19th National Congresses of the CPC
successively made major strategic deployments of “building China into a strong
maritime country” and “pursuing coordinated land and marine development and
stepping up efforts to build China into a strong maritime country” The two meetings
also arranged important tasks for protecting the marine habitats by issuing important policy documents, including Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action
Plan, Promoting China’s Ecological Civilization Construction to a New Level, Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Ecological and Environmental Protection
709
more than 4000 hectares of restored wetlands, thus curbing the ecological
degradation of coastlines, coastal wetlands and key bays.
Although the overall quality of China’s marine environment has stabilized and
been improved, and our local ecosystems restored, we are still at the peak of pollution
emissions and environmental risks as well as the period of ecological degradation
superimposed onto frequent disasters, all of which present serious threats to our
marine ecological environment. Therefore, we must pay heed to marine ecological
conservation, curb marine environmental pollution, and preserve marine biodiversity
to keep the ocean clean and beautiful.
2 Overall Thinking and Strategic Arrangement of Marine
Environmental Protection in a New Era
1. New requirements of the Party Central Committee for marine environmental protection
Since the 18th National Congress, China has incorporated the building of an ecological civilization into the overall layout of its Five-sphere Integrated Plan for realizing
socialist modernization with Chinese characteristics. The Party Central Committee
has promulgated a series of important documents, such as the Opinions on Accelerating the Construction of Ecological Civilization, the Overall Plan for the Reform
of the Ecological Civilization System, and the Measures for Evaluation and Assessment of the Goals Achieved under the Construction of Ecological Civilization. The
Committee has also made major decisions and deployments to enhance ecological environment protection, improve ecological civilization, and build a beautiful
China, and has incorporated the requirements for ecological civilization and building
a beautiful China into the Constitution, thus laying a firm foundation for Xi Jinping
Thought on Ecological Civilization, expanding and deepening the construction of
ecological civilization, offering guidance for continued ecological and environmental
protection, and providing guidelines for conserving marine habitats in a new era.
General Secretary Xi Jinping has clearly pointed out that “how the ocean industry
develops and whether the ocean issues are handled well are related to the survival and
development of our people, as well as the prosperity of our country,” and made a series
of important expositions on building China as a maritime power while protecting our
marine ecological environment. The 18th and 19th National Congresses of the CPC
successively made major strategic deployments of “building China into a strong
maritime country” and “pursuing coordinated land and marine development and
stepping up efforts to build China into a strong maritime country” The two meetings
also arranged important tasks for protecting the marine habitats by issuing important policy documents, including Water Pollution Prevention and Control Action
Plan, Promoting China’s Ecological Civilization Construction to a New Level, Opinions on Comprehensively Strengthening Ecological and Environmental Protection