Implementing marine environmental protection law in China: progress, problems and prospects

China ratified the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea and prepared its own Ocean Agenda 21 in 1996. All these commitments indicate that China is determined to strengthen the protection of the marine environment and conservation of marine living resources so as to realise the goal of sustainable use of oceans. This article examines and assesses the law and enforcement for the marine environmental protection in China. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.Environmental StudiesInternational RelationsSSCI7ARTICLE3207-2252