The SEE Foundation launches its "Blue Partnership Action Fund" at the opening ceremony. [Photo/Xiamen Daily]
Shared concerns for the marine ecological environment bring marine professionals from around the world to Xiamen each November. On Nov 6, the opening ceremony of the 2025 World Ocean Week in Xiamen was held under the theme "New Engine of Blue Development for the Marine Community with a Shared Future".
During the ceremony, a series of outcomes were released, and 19 marine economy investment projects were signed, with a combined value of 13.91 billion yuan ($1.95 billion). The event will run through Nov 12.
The China-Europe Blue Forward Fund's initial fundraising size reached 2 billion euros ($2.3 billion), with a parallel fund of 10 billion yuan established under the same framework. The fund will primarily focus on investments in sustainable blue economy and related industries.
The APEC Marine Sustainable Development Report, released by the APEC Marine Sustainable Development Center, serves as a key public knowledge product that comprehensively assesses and showcases the Asia-Pacific region's progress in implementing the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Goals and highlights APEC's contributions.
Among the public technology products and core achievements under the UN Ocean Decade's large-scale scientific program on digital deep-sea typical habitats, DePTH-GPT and SkyOcean — China's first end-to-end "remote sensing-reconstruction-prediction" marine AI large model — were also released.
Against the backdrop of growing concerns for the fate of global coastal wetlands and the future development planning of Xiatanwei Mangrove Park, the SEE Foundation has once again launched its "Blue Partnership Action Fund". The program aims to foster innovation in marine conservation methodologies and support exchanges and collaboration among partners by backing "small yet impactful" marine protection projects.
China will extend its visa-exemption arrangements to France and other countries covered by the policy to Dec 31, 2026.
