Demands and challenges for construction of marine infrastructures in China

Abstract

The oceans are crucial to human civilization. They provide core support for exploitation and utilization of marine space, resources, and energy. Thus, marine infrastructures are vital to a nation’s economic sustainable development. To this end, this article first describes the main challenges in current ocean utilization, and then reviews the China’s ocean engineering progress. As such, six major sectors are evaluated: 1) global climate change and marine environment, 2) comprehensive utilization of marine space, 3) marine transportation infrastructure interconnection, 4) ocean clean energy development and maricultural facilities, 5) ecological crisis and marine engineering countermeasures, and 6) marine infrastructure operation safety and maintenance. Finally, perspectives on future directions of ocean utilization and marine infrastructure construction in China are provided.

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Keywords

marine infrastructures / ocean engineering / exploitation of marine resource / coastal development / emerging marine industries / technological challenges

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the National Natural Science Foundation of China’s Basic Science Center Project (Grant No. 52088102) for supporting the research work of this article.

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