SANYA, China, Nov. 5, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — On November 3-4, the Symposium on Global Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance 2022 was efficiently held in Sanya, Hainan.
The symposium was co-sponsored by the China-Southeast Asia Research Center on the South China Sea, Huayang Research Center for Maritime Cooperation and Ocean Governance, China Ocean Development Foundation and National Institute for South China Sea Studies.
Wang Yi, member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee, State Councilor and Minister of Foreign Affairs, delivered a video message. Liu Zhenmin, former UN Under-Secretary-Genera, Wang Hong, Vice Minister of China’s Ministry of Natural Resources, Deng Xijun, Ambassador of China’s Mission to ASEAN, and Michael Lodge, Secretary-General of the International Seabed Authority delivered video speeches.
Wang Yi stated that China stands able to work with different nations to uphold the spirit of a maritime neighborhood of a shared future proposed by President Xi, steadiness maritime growth with safety, and promote maritime cooperation and ocean governance. Firstly, we have to collectively shield maritime safety. We should settle maritime conflicts in a peaceable method. Secondly, we have to collectively promote maritime growth. We want to advertise maritime connectivity and guarantee the sleek circulation of maritime transport and industrial chains. Thirdly, we have to talk about ocean governance collectively. We should adhere to real multilateralism and maintain bettering the governance system centered on the United Nations.
Liu Zhenmin, launched the 2022 UN Ocean Conference and its final result paperwork, stressing that ocean is the important thing to international sustainable growth and prosperity, because it generates 50% of the oxygen wanted by people and is important to mitigating the results of local weather change. All nations must take extra concerted actions to guard and peacefully use ocean and marine sources, in order to advertise sustainable ocean growth and construct an equitable blue ocean.
Wang Hong stated that international ocean governance is going through profound changes and adjustments. In the face of those crises, no nation or area can do it alone. China stands able to additional deepen cooperation with different nations around the globe, improve mutual belief, collectively deal with challenges, bridge gaps in maritime growth, promote high-quality Belt and Road growth, and present extra marine public companies and merchandise for the area and the worldwide neighborhood, thus contributing Chinese knowledge to international ocean governance.
Michael Lodge stated that the variety of deep seabed exploration tasks has elevated from 6 in 2001 to 31 in 2022, involving 22 totally different nations, 12 of that are growing nations. Growing demand for mineral sources has prompted nations and multinational firms to speed up the event of mining know-how and evaluation on venture implementation choices. He known as for higher cooperation amongst nations to develop and implement a complete algorithm and requirements governing deep seabed mining and associated actions, and to construct a worldwide governance regime that represents all nations, together with landlocked nations and small island growing states.
SOURCE National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China
