LIN Zhengjing HU Xiaozhen
New Economy. 2025, 46(3): 5-17.
Blue carbon economy is a new economic form that focuses on the carbon sequestration function of marine ecosystems. It aims to protect and restore coastal blue carbon ecosystems such as mangroves, seagrass beds, and salt marshes, develop their carbon sequestration value and derivative industrial chains, and achieve the transformation of ecological benefits into economic benefits. Mangrove forests are important coastal blue carbon ecosystems, with mangrove cultivation as the core leading the development of blue carbon economy. It is a key area for expanding new space for marine development and building a maritime power. The overall development of China’s blue carbon economy lags behind, with problems such as weak blue carbon core technologies, insufficient industrial extension and expansion, incomplete trading system construction, and inefficient value realization mechanisms. This article starts from the value realization mechanism of “blue carbon resources-blue carbon assets-blue carbon products -blue carbon capital”, combined with Guangdong’s development practice, and proposes to strengthen the basic function of mangrove forests in driving the development of blue carbon economy, coordinate the promotion of blue carbon element cultivation, full industry chain layout, trading market construction, technology innovation driven, and institutional mechanism innovation in five aspects, accelerate the pace of blue carbon economy development, seize the new track of marine economy, and provide theoretical references.
