Infographic: Carrying out all-round international cooperation on marine eco-environmental protection

The white paper titled "Marine Eco-Environmental Protection in China" was issued on Thursday by China's State Council Information Office in Beijing, China's capital city.

Marine issues are global issues, and protecting the marine eco-environment is a common concern for people all over the world, said the white paper.

In 1972, the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment adopted the Declaration on the Human Environment, which included conservation of the marine environment in its 26 principles and initiated global action on marine environmental protection. In 1982, the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea adopted the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS), opening a new chapter in global marine governance and providing comprehensive and systematic provisions for marine environmental protection.

The international community has steadily advanced global ocean protection by establishing a series of marine environmental protection agreements. Countries around the world are building consensus and working in synergy to address the risks and challenges facing the marine eco-environment, striving to make the oceans clean and beautiful, according to the document.

China is committed to the vision of a maritime community of shared future, and conducts in-depth mutually beneficial cooperation with the international community through multiple channels and in various forms, contributing Chinese wisdom to global marine eco-environmental protection, the white paper noted.