近年来，中国海洋管理部门加大了对海洋污染的治理，政策手段较之以往更为严厉，海洋环境稍有改善。但是，除了累积多年的渤海问题、赤潮、水产养殖等老的环境问题没有解决好之外，又出现了北方沿海新区开发建设成潮，东部沿海化工园区连接成带，向大海排放污染物等新的问题。并且，2008年出现了以“青岛浒苔”为代表的海洋环境事件。海洋环境治理的任务仍然艰巨。
The Chinese oceanic administration has been stepping up actions against marine pollution in recent years with tougher policies than before. As a result，the marine environment has been slightly improved. Nonetheless，new problems such as a wave of new area development along the coastline in northern China and the emission of pollutants into the seas by a strip of chemical industry parks along the coastline in eastern China have emerged in addition to existing environmental problems that have yet to be solved，such as the multi-year Bohai Sea problem，the red tides and the aquaculture. Moreover，marine environment-relevant incidents led by Enteromorpha prolifera in Qingdao occurred in 2008. The marine environment protection task remains challenging.
