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T1 China: OECMs in Marine and Coastal Areas - Understanding and Accelerating Actions on OECMs in the Marine and Coastal Areas of East Asian Seas
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
A1 Coordinating Body on the Seas of East Asia, 
A2 Guoxiang, Liao
A2 Zhiwei, Zhang
A2 Xiaotong, Zhu
K1 marine environment
K1 coastal area
K1 biodiversity
K1 marine biodiversity
K1 marine conservation
YR 2025
FD 2025-08
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/48804
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/48804
NO 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.)
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 19, 2026