With the development of marine technology, the development and utilization of the undersea resources are being faced with enormous challenges. The protection of UCH is the duty and responsibility of the whole world. Recently, the UCH gradually attracted public's attention, the related ownership, jurisdiction, and the international cooperation mechanism has become the focus of international and domestic legal issue.
Compared with Asian countries, common law countries like Britain and civil law countries like France have more experience on the marine legislation. These countries, used to protect the private interest together with preserving the national interest, but now they pay more attention to the protection of UCH and try to balance the national, public and private interest. Chinese legislation can learn from these pioneer maritime countries.
At the beginning of 2018, China national cultural heritage administration has put forward an amendment draft on UCH legislation and now it is in discussion. We know China is a maritime power with a long history, but the regime of UCH protection is obviously deficient. Destroy and treasure hunting threatened UCH which located in territorial waters and other waters under control. Last year President Xi came up with a concept called Community of Shared Future for the Mankind, which means all countries shard a common future in order to call upon International cooperation in every field. What's more, the marine silk road is flourishing among most Asian countries from centuries ago, successful protection of UCH will both maintain the prosperity and memorize the outstanding achievements of our ancestor. That requires china to cooperate with the countries around the south china sea.
In the newly amendment, progresses including establish the principle of in situ protection, set up the UCH museum, add the finding reports, reward and punishment measures, introduce private power specification on UCH development standards. But it still not enough and need further complement.