China: OECMs in Marine and Coastal Areas - Understanding and Accelerating Actions on OECMs in the Marine and Coastal Areas of East Asian Seas

According to the "2023 Bulletin on the State of China's Marine Ecological Environment", which was jointly compiled and released by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment (MEE) of China and other ministries, there were 352 Marine Protected Areas in China by 2023, covering an area of 9.33 million hectares. China has built a PA system with national parks as the mainstay, supported by nature reserves and supplemented by nature parks (including forest parks, geoparks, marine parks, wetland parks, etc.)