my country attaches great importance to the management of marine litter and plastic pollution

        Recently, at the regular press conference of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, in response to reports from foreign media that China is currently the main exporter of marine microplastics, Huo Chuanlin, deputy director of the Marine Ecological Environment Department of the Ministry of Ecology and Environment, responded that China is the largest plastic produc.

China, but it does not mean that China is a big plastic polluter, and more and more studies have also proved th.

        Marine litter and plastic pollution are hot issues of general concern in the international communi.

Their governance involves multiple links of production, circulation and consumption, and requires the joint participation of the government, enterprises and the publ.

China attaches great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic pollution, and has actively taken a series of measur.

        One is to promote harmless treatme.

Relevant departments actively implement the household waste classification system, strengthen the recycling and utilization of plastic waste, promote environmentally sound disposal, and strive to reduce plastic waste from entering the ocean from the sour.

        The second is to strengthen special governan.

The prevention and control of marine garbage pollution shall be included in the pilot work of the "Bay Chief System", and the dumping of production and domestic garbage into the sea shall be prohibit.

Intensify efforts to clean up marine debris, and carry out demonstrations of comprehensive prevention and control of marine debris pollution in coastal citi.

For example, according to the Action Plan for Comprehensive Treatment of Bohai Sea, the comprehensive treatment of garbage in the rivers entering the sea and the coastal waters of the Bohai Sea has been carried out; according to the Action Plan of Action Plan for Treatment of Tough Battles in Agriculture and Rural Areas, the prevention and control of rural production and domestic waste pollution has been strengthened, and the responsibility of mulching film producers has been extend.

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        The third is to strengthen public participati.

Actively promote public participation in beach cleaning activities, strengthen publicity and education on clean oceans, and organize beach garbage cleaning activities in coastal cities such as Yantai, Dalian, and Rizhao, and use this as an opportunity to publicize the change of consumption habits to the public, and advocate the reduction of disposable plastic produc.

China attaches great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic pollution and strengthens the public's awareness of marine litter pollution prevention and contr.

        The fourth is to carry out monitoring and evaluati.

China attaches great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic polluti.

Since 2007, China has attached great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic pollution and began to include marine litter in the routine monitoring of the marine environme.

In 2016, China has attached great importance to the treatment of marine litter and plastic pollution, including marine microplastics in the routine monitoring of the marine environment, and regularly publishes the monitoring results to the publ.

In 2017, China attached great importance to the management of marine litter and plastic pollution, and for the first time carried out monitoring activities of marine microplastics in the oceans and polar regio.

        Fifth, strengthen scientific resear.

In 2017, China attached great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic pollution, launched a national key research and development project, systematically investigated marine microplastic pollution in coastal waters, and carried out in-depth research on marine microplastics transmission pathways, environmental behavior and biological toxici.

Encourage academic exchanges and data and information sharing, and promote research on monitoring technologies and risk assessment methods for marine debris and microplasti.

        Sixth, actively participate in international cooperati.

Actively participate in the international process of tackling marine litter and plastic pollution, participate in the UNEP Regional Sea Action Plan, earnestly abide by the Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, and actively promote the promulgation of the East Asia Summit Leaders' Statement on Responding to Marine Plastics "Declaration on Garbage" and "The Implementation Framework of the G20 Marine Litter Action Plan", with a view to jointly promoting the prevention and control of global marine litter and plastic polluti.

At the same time, it also actively promotes bilateral cooperation, for example, China-Japan, China-Canada, China-US cooperation mechanism in the prevention and control of marine debr.

        Today, China attaches great importance to the control of marine litter and plastic polluti.

On September 9, the Central Comprehensive Deepening Reform Committee reviewed and approved the "Opinions on Further Strengthening the Control of Plastic Pollutio.

In the next step, China will continue to strengthen the prevention and control of marine litter and plastic pollution in combination with the implementation of this opini.