Southeast Asia Information Port News (www.dnyxxg.com) – The 2025 Xiamen International Ocean Week opened on June 6th in Xiamen, Fujian Province. Themed "Creating New Momentum for Blue Development and Building a Community with a Shared Future for the Ocean," this year's Ocean Week is jointly hosted by the Xiamen Municipal People's Government, the Ministry of Natural Resources, the UNDP China Office, and the East Asian Seas Environmental Management Partnership.
Carlos Aldeco, UN Food and Agriculture Organization Representative in China, stated in his opening remarks that the challenges facing the ocean—climate change, biodiversity loss, and marine pollution—are global, thus requiring global solutions. It is based on this concept that the important role played by the Xiamen International Ocean Week has been highly recognized. This platform brings together various stakeholders, including governments, scientists, civil society, and international organizations, creating valuable space for building consensus, mobilizing resources, and accelerating the implementation of solutions.
Sun Shuxian, Vice Minister of Natural Resources and Director of the State Oceanic Administration of China, stated that as a participant and builder of global ocean governance, China has always placed its own development within the grand narrative of common human development and actively promotes the building of a community with a shared future for the ocean. Addressing climate change, preventing marine pollution, promoting blue carbon sequestration, decarbonizing shipping, and developing emerging marine industries are becoming global necessities. In the future, all parties should strengthen the alignment of their concepts and strategies, enhance the integration of interests, and jointly build a blue homeland characterized by lasting peace, universal security, common prosperity, openness and inclusiveness, and a clean and beautiful environment.
This year marks the 20th anniversary of the Xiamen International Ocean Week. At the opening ceremony, the National Satellite Ocean Application Center released the "End-to-End Artificial Intelligence Ocean Model 'Viewing the Sea'," China's first full-link artificial intelligence ocean model integrating remote sensing, reconstruction, and prediction. This model enables in-depth understanding and forward-looking prediction of the marine environment, promoting the reconstruction and upgrading of the marine environmental monitoring system.
On the same day, the Department of Marine Area and Island Management of the Ministry of Natural Resources released several typical cases of three-dimensional stratified marine rights allocation, involving the integration of different marine use methods and industries, such as three-dimensional stratified aquaculture, providing replicable and scalable practical models for the three-dimensional utilization of marine areas nationwide. (End)
