World Heritage Marine Programme. Value Of The Study And Its Development Trend

World Heritage is the most important and successful protect system in whole world, for it is the only system which protects the nature environment and culture heritage together. World Heritage represents the uppermost values of mankind and nature, so people pay more attention to it. The achievements it has got are very great in latest 30 years. The items in World Heritage list are not the environment and culture of land but of ocean, but the items of ocean are on the side place currently.Life comes from ocean. Ocean is the most important ecosystem in earth, which takes great influence on world environment, so it cannot be neglected. As one of the culture type, ocean culture is one headstream of whole mankind culture, showing people's history and creativity. Considering the value whether of entironment or culture, ocean is very important to people, the importance should be shown in World Heritage list. With more people being cognizant of the value of World Heritage and the importance of ocean entironment and culture, more and more items about ocean is being get into World Heritage list. It is so sorry that there is not even one item about ocean in World Heritage list of China, no research on them. It is hard time to change this condition.This paper digs the value of ocean entironment and culture, by analyzing the items about ocean in World Heritage list. It expatiates the characteristic of ocean culture, the process that ocean culture generating, developing and evolving shown by the items about ocean in the list. It also reveals how important that the items memorize the people's culture. The nature items about ocean show the particularity of oceanic entironment and the note of earth evolvement history. The paper expounds the importance that the items represent earth physiognomy and note earth history. The paper also concludes that the value of entironment and culture is syncretic. On the base of analysis of the items about ocean in Word Heritage list, the paper points out the direction that World Heritage should take in order to get better development and more success in future. Taking the Kula system of South Pacific Ocean and Dongsha-Muddy shore in Jiangsu China as examples, the paper also thinks items in World Heritage list should cover with more areas and include more heritage types.With the passing of 'Cairns Decision', it is the trend that more items about ocean especial the nature items about ocean will be get into World Heritage list, the importance of the items about ocean in World Heritage will be more distinct. So this paper's aim is becoming the complement to the research on World Heritage, as the abecedarian and simple research on World Heritage about ocean in China.