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China’s Marine Environmental Protection Strategy in the Background of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Progress, Challenges, and Outlook
Summary
This review examines China's marine environmental protection strategy, tracing its development and analyzing how the COVID-19 pandemic affected marine pollution management. The pandemic both increased plastic waste (from masks and PPE) and disrupted environmental enforcement, creating new challenges for China's marine conservation efforts.
The issue of marine environmental protection is a strategic one.China's marine environmental protection strategy has gone through a process of development, however, there are still many problems remained.The COVID-19 pandemic outbreak has brought enormous challenges and opportunities to Chinese marine environmental protection sector.Therefore, This paper presents a comprehensive review of marine environmental protection during the epidemic, the achievements of marine environmental protection in China during the epidemic, and the key issues of marine environmental protection in China.Based on this, the study constructs a "people-centered" marine environmental governance model to provide theoretical references to provide solutions to China's marine environmental governance issues.
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