Quan Yongbo, Xiong Yicheng
With the increasing human maritime activities, public health issues at sea have become increasingly acute, leading to impediments to collective action in global ocean governance. The concept of the “Maritime Community with a Shared Future” has emerged as a key to scientifically restructuring the governance system for maritime public health security, owing to its governance attributes that effectively address the diverse governance needs and its institutional attributes that integrate the multilevel normative systems. However, constrained by such factors as global maritime governance deficits, proliferation of nontraditional security threats, accelerated transformation of maritime governance rules, and implementation gaps in public health governance regulations, the practice of maritime public health governance under this concept still faces realworld challenges including disordered international cooperation, complex security risks, insufficient compliance effectiveness, and rule coordination obstacles. To this end, China must focus on the dual core of governance and institutions, take the “Maritime Community with a Shared Future” as its fundamental guiding principle, promote the holistic governance consensus and the innovation of governance mechanisms in the international community, and enhance the effectiveness of maritime public health governance through such pathways as improving foreignrelated rule of law and deeply engaging in the development of international rule of law.