On the Historical Evolution of China’s “Land-Ocean Integration” (Luhai Tongchou) Policy

Abstract

Land-ocean integration is an important strategic measure for China to build a maritime power, which was originally proposed to describe the overall consideration of the protection of land and marine ecological environments, and later this concept gradually evolved into the coordinated development of ocean and land, and the application fields of this measure have gradually expanded from the environmental field to economic, political, cultural and other fields. By summarizing and analyzing classical Marxist literature and policy documents of the Communist Party of China, this paper aims to delineate the historical evolution of China’s land-ocean integration policy, and argues that this policy is built on the solid foundation of absorbing the classical Marxism theory and inheriting as well as developing the views and thoughts of several generations of Chinese Communists. It also discusses in detail the development conditions, roads, goals and methods of the land-ocean integration policy.