Strategic Thinking and Theoretical Practice of Marine Environmental Protection in a New Era

Since the 18th National Congress of the CPC, the Central Committee has been attaching great importance to the building of ecological civilization with unprecedented theoretical vigor and promotion efforts as well as in-depth reform. China is a large country bordering the ocean that has a significant strategic role in ensuring national security, promoting economic and social development, building an ecological civilization, and advancing cultural prosperity. Enhancing marine habitat protection is an important part of building an ecological civilization and building China as a maritime power, and it is also of great significance to creating a beautiful China. Moreover, marine ecological and environmental issues have formed a bottleneck and shortcomings that delay the economic and social development of China’s coastal areas. To atone for the above shortcomings and solve the marine environmental problems that the people are deeply concerned about, we should follow General Secretary Xi Jinping Thought on Ecological Civilization and important expositions on building China as a maritime power as a guide, respecting, conforming to and preserving the ocean to protect and improve the marine ecological environment—a responsibility which we should take to enhance China to a maritime power and build a beautiful China, and which is also related to the welfare and future of the people.