The Construction Of China's New Seapower In The Times Of Peaceful Development

Generally speaking, seapower refers to the ability to exploit and use sea, to maintain maritime interests and to realize national strategy. All nations gradually formulated their seapower theories in the maritime struggle, and explained the connotation from their own perspective. As the changing of international politics, the connotation of seapower has taken place great changes. The priority of seapower is diverting from contending for maritime strategical passageway to exploiting sea. Means and ways of seapower are becoming pluralistic. Seapower should continue play its important role in development of nations and international politics.Entering a new century, China put forward the strategy of peaceful development. The realization of China's peaceful development need to persevere in reforming and opening-up, to pursue the export-oriented road, and to require the strong seapower. China was behind sea and not had seapower in history. After the foundation of the People's Republic of China, especially after the implementation of the reforming and opening-up strategy, China's seapower has made great progress, but its actual effect fall behind changing stituation and emerging problems. Implementation of China's peaceful developing stategy require a new and comprehensive seapower. This seapower is a strategy that nation makes arrangements for maritime affairs, to put it concretely, this seapower refers to ability to exploit and use sea, to develop suitable maritime power, to protect the legal maritime rights, and to defend national maritime interests, to contain and eliminate dangers of various shapes from ocean, to guarantee national sovereign independence and territorial integrity, and to serve the peaceful development strategy. As any other country, China's seapower has common characters, but it has its own characteristics. Along with the peaceful development road, China's seapower should have peaceful growth nature, comprehensive and dynamic characteristics, and national strategical quality. Except for the traditional military power and maritime rights, the components of China's seapower should comprise economic seapower, legal seapower, maritime culture, and maritime diplomacy,etc. On the basis of inherent quality and components that China's new seapower should have, some questions and deficiencecies could be founded on the present state of China's maritime affairs. In light of this circumvent, the actual plan that constructing comprehensive seapower should be formulated, the concrete measures should be taken, and to promote national peaceful developments.