The port area is adjacent to the sea and embraces the sea. The coastline is 317 kilometers long and has 204 islands, accounting for 31.34% of the islands in Guangxi and 71.83% of the islands in Fangchenggang City. The islands are rich in resources and are all uninhabited islands.

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port area is adjacent to the sea and harbors. It embraces the sea and has a coastline of 317 kilometers. It has 204 islands, accounting for 31.34% of the islands in Guangxi and 71.83% of the islands in Fangchenggang City. The islands are rich in resources and are all uninhabited islands. "We must care for the ocean as much as we care for life." The Port District People's Procuratorate has kept in mind General Secretary Xi Jinping's instructions, established the concept of cooperation between prosecutors and government, based on the responsibility of marine public interest litigation, strengthened awareness of island protection, and jointly protected the marine ecological environment.

html On July 14, Huang Chun, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Chief Prosecutor of the People's Procuratorate of the Port District, and Wang Lijin, Secretary of the Party Leadership Group and Director of the Ocean Bureau of the Port District, respectively led the police officers of the Public Interest Litigation Department of the Procuratorate and the staff of the Marine Surveillance Brigade to jointly carry out the first island patrol activity. Field research. The two sides inspected Shaluoling Xiaodun, Shaluoling Nandao, Chaidun, Xiaodudun, Dadudun, Zhoudun, Shanzhushan, Er Erdun and other islands. At the island patrol site, the procuratorate has a detailed understanding of the island's current status and surrounding environment, focusing on the integrity of the island, the island's vegetation and the growth and survival of birds, and whether there are illegal buildings, unlicensed development, quarrying and sand excavation, logging, etc. on the island. Illegal use of the island, and carefully listened to the introduction of the daily island protection work carried out by the Ocean Administration. The two sides conducted in-depth discussions on how to strengthen cooperation and perform their respective duties to protect the islands, forming a joint force in law enforcement and judiciary, and further reaching a consensus on protecting the islands.

In the next step, the Public Interest Litigation Department of the People's Procuratorate of the Port District will focus on the overall layout of the "One Center and Four Axis" Seaside Mountain Prosecution Public Interest Litigation Brand proposed by the People's Procuratorate of Fangchenggang City, with "coastline" as the carrier and "Six Sea Articles" as the Based on this, we will strengthen coordination and cooperation with the marine department, carry out regular island patrol activities, comprehensively understand the current status of island management, discuss and solve problems that arise in the process of island protection, and do a good job in island protection.

It is reported that since 2019, the People's Procuratorate of the Port District has handled cases involving sea encroachment, illegal reclamation, illegal fishing using banned fishing gear " ground cage ", marine garbage, damage to seawall projects, etc. There were 8 public interest litigation cases related to island protection.

Carrying out island inspections is a powerful measure for the procuratorial organs to conscientiously fulfill their legal supervision responsibilities for ecological and environmental protection. It is also a concrete manifestation of the "procuratorial blue" protecting the "ocean blue". The People's Procuratorate of the port area will further exert its public interest litigation function, conduct in-depth front-line investigation of clues that damage the ecological environment and natural landscape of the island and its surrounding sea areas, increase the protection of the island, and contribute procuratorial power to the construction of ecological civilization in the port area.

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Article 2, paragraph 2, of the " Island Protection Law of the People's Republic of China " stipulates that islands referred to in this law refer to naturally formed land areas surrounded by sea water and higher than the water surface at high tide, including Inhabited islands and uninhabited islands.

Article 3 stipulates that the state implements the principles of scientific planning, priority for protection, rational development, and sustainable utilization of islands.

Article 3 of the Regulations on the Protection and Utilization of Uninhabited Islands stipulates that uninhabited islands are owned by the state. The state implements a planning system for functional areas and protection and utilization of uninhabited islands.

The state encourages the rational development, utilization and protection of uninhabited islands, and strictly restricts activities that damage the ecological environment and natural landscape of uninhabited islands and their surrounding waters, such as island bombing, sand and gravel mining on the islands, and physical dam-to-island projects.

Article 21 stipulates that units and individuals that use uninhabited islands have the obligation to protect the ecological environment and military facilities of the islands and their surrounding waters.

Article 34 (1) stipulates that uninhabited islands refer to islands, rocks, low-tide highlands, etc. that are not used as permanent residences in the waters under the jurisdiction of our country.

text/picture | Huang Shuangmei Li Keji

editor | Chen Xiaoqun

review | Ma Xiaohong

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