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2. Respecting the integral and systematic ecosystem and ensuring ecological
security by linking land with sea
Ecology is a unified natural system, an organic chain of interdependence and close
connection. We must adhere to the principle of ecological priority and green development, along with the idea of natural restoration as the main approach with artificial restoration as the supplement, to establish a land-sea ecosystem protection and
restoration mechanism, and carry out integrated ecological protection and restoration
projects of mountains, rivers, forests, lakes, grasslands, and the sea for protection
of important ecosystems and restoration of damaged ecosystems. Through marine
ecological restoration projects—for example, the “Blue Bay,” the “South Mangrove,
North Tamarisk” and the “Ecological Island”—we should restore important ecological corridors and nodes such as coastal wetlands, natural shorelines, key estuaries
and bays, special islands, and biological migration channels, in order to enhance
the functions of the coasts, oceanic areas and islands, maintain biodiversity, link the
ecological boundaries of land and sea, and build a land-sea ecological safety network
that is interconnected and mutually beneficial.
From the perspective of improving the integral ecological network, we should
further strengthen the selection and planning of protected areas, effectively conserve
the ecologically sensitive areas such as typical wetland ecosystems, rare species
habitats and migration routes, economic species bait and breeding areas, and rescue
protected marine areas with an important ecological status to incorporate the ocean
into the ecological network.
3. Constructing coastal retreat lines and buffer zones, and continuously
making the ocean more accessible to the public
Currently, there exists inconsistency in terms of the management boundary of the
land and sea, resulting in a large number of overlapping and conflicting areas in
land development and oceanic management. We should conduct coastline surveys
to clarify the boundaries of coastline management, and carry out the most stringent coastline management control system, strengthen the red line and reclamation
systems for marine ecological protection, rationally arrange production, living and
ecological boundaries to maximize ecological coastlines, expand waterfronts and
beaches accessible to the public, create spaces for exposure to nature in bays to make
people better understand the benefits of improved marine ecological environment
and thus feel happy about it.
Moreover, we should strengthen the management of the land adjacent to coastlines,
and encourage industries along the coast to optimize and improve their structural
adjustment and transformation for the purpose of protecting the marine ecological
environment. We should also formulate and implement a coastal construction retreat
line system, strictly observing the 200-meter retreat line and the retention rate of
the natural coastline, while demolishing unreasonable buildings on beaches, and
creating a buffer zone of “coastal inland zone–tidal transition zone–coastal water
zone.” Finally, we should achieve “naturalization, ecological civilization, and green
D. Guan
2. Respecting the integral and systematic ecosystem and ensuring ecological
security by linking land with sea
Ecology is a unified natural system, an organic chain of interdependence and close
connection. We must adhere to the principle of ecological priority and green development, along with the idea of natural restoration as the main approach with artificial restoration as the supplement, to establish a land-sea ecosystem protection and
restoration mechanism, and carry out integrated ecological protection and restoration
projects of mountains, rivers, forests, lakes, grasslands, and the sea for protection
of important ecosystems and restoration of damaged ecosystems. Through marine
ecological restoration projects—for example, the “Blue Bay,” the “South Mangrove,
North Tamarisk” and the “Ecological Island”—we should restore important ecological corridors and nodes such as coastal wetlands, natural shorelines, key estuaries
and bays, special islands, and biological migration channels, in order to enhance
the functions of the coasts, oceanic areas and islands, maintain biodiversity, link the
ecological boundaries of land and sea, and build a land-sea ecological safety network
that is interconnected and mutually beneficial.
From the perspective of improving the integral ecological network, we should
further strengthen the selection and planning of protected areas, effectively conserve
the ecologically sensitive areas such as typical wetland ecosystems, rare species
habitats and migration routes, economic species bait and breeding areas, and rescue
protected marine areas with an important ecological status to incorporate the ocean
into the ecological network.
3. Constructing coastal retreat lines and buffer zones, and continuously
making the ocean more accessible to the public
Currently, there exists inconsistency in terms of the management boundary of the
land and sea, resulting in a large number of overlapping and conflicting areas in
land development and oceanic management. We should conduct coastline surveys
to clarify the boundaries of coastline management, and carry out the most stringent coastline management control system, strengthen the red line and reclamation
systems for marine ecological protection, rationally arrange production, living and
ecological boundaries to maximize ecological coastlines, expand waterfronts and
beaches accessible to the public, create spaces for exposure to nature in bays to make
people better understand the benefits of improved marine ecological environment
and thus feel happy about it.
Moreover, we should strengthen the management of the land adjacent to coastlines,
and encourage industries along the coast to optimize and improve their structural
adjustment and transformation for the purpose of protecting the marine ecological
environment. We should also formulate and implement a coastal construction retreat
line system, strictly observing the 200-meter retreat line and the retention rate of
the natural coastline, while demolishing unreasonable buildings on beaches, and
creating a buffer zone of “coastal inland zone–tidal transition zone–coastal water
zone.” Finally, we should achieve “naturalization, ecological civilization, and green