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 international locations to uphold the spirit of a maritime group of a shared future proposed by President Xi, stability 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 graceful movement of maritime transport and industrial chains. Thirdly, we have to focus on ocean governance collectively. We should adhere to real multilateralism and maintain enhancing the governance system centered on the United Nations.
Liu Zhenmin, launched the 2022 UN Ocean Conference and its end result paperwork, stressing that ocean is the important thing to world sustainable growth and prosperity, because it generates 50% of the oxygen wanted by people and is significant to mitigating the results of local weather change. All international locations have to take extra concerted actions to guard and peacefully use ocean and marine assets, in order to advertise sustainable ocean growth and construct an equitable blue ocean.
Wang Hong stated that world ocean governance is dealing with profound changes and modifications. In the face of those crises, no nation or area can do it alone. China stands able to additional deepen cooperation with different international locations around the globe, improve mutual belief, collectively handle 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 group, thus contributing Chinese knowledge to world ocean governance.
Michael Lodge stated that the variety of deep seabed exploration initiatives has elevated from 6 in 2001 to 31 in 2022, involving 22 totally different international locations, 12 of that are growing international locations. Growing demand for mineral assets has prompted international locations and multinational companies to speed up the event of mining know-how and evaluation on mission implementation choices. He referred to as for larger cooperation amongst international locations to develop and implement a complete algorithm and requirements governing deep seabed mining and associated actions, and to construct a world governance regime that represents all international locations, together with landlocked international locations and small island growing states.
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SOURCE National Institute for South China Sea Studies, China
