2Contributing authors BAI Yunwen , Vice President, Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS) Karina Barquet , Team Leader of Water, Coasts and Ocean, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute CHEN Shang , Senior Scientist, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources Alfredo Giron , Head of Ocean Action Agenda and Friends of Ocean Action,World Economic Forum HAN Baolong , Associate Professor at the Research Center for Eco-Environmental Sciences (RCEES), Chinese Academy of Sciences HAN Guoyi, Senior Research Fellow, Stockholm Environment Institute Louise Heaps , Lead, Sustainable Blue Economy (Global), WWF-UK LIU Dahai , Professor, School of Public Administration, Renmin University of China; Academic Leader, Key Laboratory of Coastal Science and Integrated Management, Ministry of Natural Resources, China Philip A. S. James , Director, UNSW Centre for Sustainable Development Reform and Global Ocean Accounts Partnership REN Yujie , Director of Green Finance, International Institute of Green Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, China John Virdin , Assistant Professor of the Practice, Marine Science and Conservation Division, Nicholas School of the Environment; Director, Ocean Policy Program, Nicholas Institute for Energy, Environment and Sustainability, Duke University, Durham, NC, USA WEN Mengyao , Researcher, Institute of Finance and Sustainability (IFS) XIE Xi , Partnership and Industry Transitions Lead, Center for Nature and Climate, World Economic Forum XING Wenxiu , Professor, First Institute of Oceanography, Ministry of Natural Resources ZHANG Xiaoquan , Chief Science Officer of China Program, The Nature Conservancy Patrick Yeung , Assistant Director, Climate Action, AVPN ZHANG Yimo , Priority Project Coordinator, Sustainable Blue Economy, World Wide Fund for Nature Beijing Office. ZHOU Zhou , Green Finance Researcher, International Institute of Green Finance, Central University of Finance and Economics, China Cover image: Yishu Fang/iStock.com

Advancing China's Sustainable Blue Economy 2025