In (Horse August fourth day), September 10, 2002, China has been a "sea land certificate.

2002 9 10, the State Council approved the agreement, the State Oceanic Administration in Beijing issued a "national marine function zoning. Stressed that the State Council approved in the marine function zoning is the basis for the management and protection of the marine environment of the waters, legally valid, must be strictly enforced.
State Oceanic Administration spokesman, said Wang Fei, the future, those who use the sea projects should first approval review, in line with the function zoning in order to achieve the use permits in the waters, which is equivalent to the land on the land use permits. the
marine function zoning under the waters of location, natural resources, environmental conditions, and the development and utilization of the requirements, the waters divided into different types of functional areas, which can control and guide the direction of the use of waters, protection, and improvement of the marine ecological environment. "National marine function zoning of waters under the jurisdiction of delimitation of the port shipping area, fisheries resource utilization and conservation areas, tourist areas, sea water utilization, and sea, marine protected areas, special use areas, reserved area 10 main marine functional zones identified 30 key sea areas in the Bohai Sea, Yellow Sea, East China Sea, South China Sea, four sea areas, and the proposed priorities and management requirements of each development and protection of the marine functional zones.
As of 2000, the waters use of an area of ​​more than 200 million hectares, of which more than 1.2 million hectares of marine aquaculture, of more than 40 million hectares of Yantian port, more than 20 million hectares, more than 20 million hectares of oil and gas exploration, marine dumping area 0.2 million hectares, laying submarine cable pipeline of over 13.5 thousand kilometers. In addition, China has established 69 marine nature reserves, with a total area of ​​more than 1.3 million hectares.