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marine environment protection and encourage them to conserve oceanic habitats, modernize the marine ecological environment governance system and
governance capabilities, and ensure the security of the marine ecological
environment to keep the ocean beautiful.
In terms of the direction and content, the first is to pursue green development and
achieve prevention at the source. Ecological and environmental issues, in essence,
are linked to the way people develop and live. The fundamental solution to curbing
pollution is to speed up green development. Only by drastically reducing pollutant
emissions from the source can the ecological environment be significantly improved.
Since rivers go to the sea, all the pollutants from human activities—on the land, rivers,
or the ocean—would directly or indirectly impact the marine ecological environment.
Therefore, tracing, preventing and controlling the source of the pollutants are crucial
to improving the marine habitats.
The second is to protect and restore the ecological environment. We should follow
the principle of giving priority to ecological protection to involve the ocean into
the community of “mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands”—a
natural unit with a shared future, with the aim of comprehensively protecting and
restoring the marine ecosystem in an all-round manner covering all the regions, while
putting more efforts into the conservation of marine biological resources and helping
marine ecology restore itself. What’s more, we should adhere to the principle of
natural restoration as the main approach with artificial restoration as the supplement,
systematically implement a wide range of policies to link the ecological habitats of
the land with that of the ocean, restore the ecological and hydrodynamic regions
like beaches, coastal wetlands, and bays, enhance the service functions of marine
ecosystems, improve our ability to offer high-quality marine ecological goods, and
expand marine ecological capacity.
The third is to make innovations and enhance capabilities. Institutional construction, capacity enhancement and technological innovation are vital to the conservation
and improvement of the marine ecological environment. We should create a strict
and rigorous legal system to ensure that the decision-making and deployment of
marine environmental protection take root and take effect; it is necessary to improve
monitoring, supervision and emergency response, and to actively promote intelligent
monitoring, modernization of supervision, and normalization of emergency response;
finally, we should give full play to scientific and technological innovation, incubate
the domestic environmental protection and the technology industry, protect marine
ecology, and build a beautiful China.
The fourth is to seek international cooperation and global governance. Protecting
the marine ecological environment is a common challenge for humanity and also a
responsibility the world should take. We should regard the ocean as part of the natural
community with a shared future, and create a modern marine environmental governance system based on our national conditions—a system led by the government, with
enterprises as the main body, and participation by social organizations and the public.
Furthermore, we should coordinate domestic governance and international cooperation, build an efficient and fair global marine environmental governance system,
D. Guan
marine environment protection and encourage them to conserve oceanic habitats, modernize the marine ecological environment governance system and
governance capabilities, and ensure the security of the marine ecological
environment to keep the ocean beautiful.
In terms of the direction and content, the first is to pursue green development and
achieve prevention at the source. Ecological and environmental issues, in essence,
are linked to the way people develop and live. The fundamental solution to curbing
pollution is to speed up green development. Only by drastically reducing pollutant
emissions from the source can the ecological environment be significantly improved.
Since rivers go to the sea, all the pollutants from human activities—on the land, rivers,
or the ocean—would directly or indirectly impact the marine ecological environment.
Therefore, tracing, preventing and controlling the source of the pollutants are crucial
to improving the marine habitats.
The second is to protect and restore the ecological environment. We should follow
the principle of giving priority to ecological protection to involve the ocean into
the community of “mountains, rivers, forests, farmlands, lakes and grasslands”—a
natural unit with a shared future, with the aim of comprehensively protecting and
restoring the marine ecosystem in an all-round manner covering all the regions, while
putting more efforts into the conservation of marine biological resources and helping
marine ecology restore itself. What’s more, we should adhere to the principle of
natural restoration as the main approach with artificial restoration as the supplement,
systematically implement a wide range of policies to link the ecological habitats of
the land with that of the ocean, restore the ecological and hydrodynamic regions
like beaches, coastal wetlands, and bays, enhance the service functions of marine
ecosystems, improve our ability to offer high-quality marine ecological goods, and
expand marine ecological capacity.
The third is to make innovations and enhance capabilities. Institutional construction, capacity enhancement and technological innovation are vital to the conservation
and improvement of the marine ecological environment. We should create a strict
and rigorous legal system to ensure that the decision-making and deployment of
marine environmental protection take root and take effect; it is necessary to improve
monitoring, supervision and emergency response, and to actively promote intelligent
monitoring, modernization of supervision, and normalization of emergency response;
finally, we should give full play to scientific and technological innovation, incubate
the domestic environmental protection and the technology industry, protect marine
ecology, and build a beautiful China.
The fourth is to seek international cooperation and global governance. Protecting
the marine ecological environment is a common challenge for humanity and also a
responsibility the world should take. We should regard the ocean as part of the natural
community with a shared future, and create a modern marine environmental governance system based on our national conditions—a system led by the government, with
enterprises as the main body, and participation by social organizations and the public.
Furthermore, we should coordinate domestic governance and international cooperation, build an efficient and fair global marine environmental governance system,