Edited by
	Gao Deyi		1995017
	Xu Dazhen		1998053
	Fang Quangen		1991030
	Ruan Wei		1999049

　

　

　

Since 1979, China has adopted a policy of economy reform and opening up to the outsideworld, shipping industry has undergone great development as to meet the needs of international and domestic trade. The structure of the maritime administration has been reformed several times to be in line with external environmental changes in terms of political, economical, social and technical aspects. At present, MOC is being undergone a most significant structure reform ever since. The core tasks of the present reforming is to separate the administration functions from business management, for example, COSCO (China Ocean Shipping (Group)Corporation) is no longer belonging to MOC. Meanwhile much more emphasis will be put on the aspects of marine safety and environment protection. In the MOC, there are some departments that are more connected with maritime affairs.

　

Under the leadership of the MOC, the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration is key body to control all the aspects related to the maritime safety and maritime environment. As the result of reorganization of the MOC, the Maritime Safety Administration becomes a relatively independent governmental body. Although it is still under the MOC, but has its own budget and income remains as a non-profit organization. Another big change is that it has merged with Chinese Register of Shipping. In order to enhance the position of the new administration, one deputy minister is appointed to be the director of the Administration concurrently. The detailed information will be given further on.

　

Its main functions are: undertaking the administration of water transportation; taking care of shipping, port operation policy, freight rate and port dues rate, port production control in general; negotiating the bilateral agreements with foreign counterparts in the field of water transport.

　

Its main functions are: responsible and instruct maritime matters concerning international co-operation; coordinate the relationship between the MOC with international organizations; send appropriate delegates to international meeting, prepare proposals, suggestion, etc. Formality the process of ratifying or accessing international conventions.

　

　

The Chinese Maritime Safety Administration (it is also called Harbor Superintendence Administration) is a specialized body to control all aspects related to the maritime safety and maritime environment. It undertakes Chinese government' obligations under the IMO conventions both as a port State and a flag State.

The Chinese Maritime Safety Administration's Head Office in the MOC instructs and control all the maritime safety administration activities at national level, drafts and promulgates maritime safety rules and regulations and gives advice and suggestions to the ministry on the maritime safety policy making. The main functions are distributed in the following divisions:

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

　

The Ship Surveying Division is a new division after Chinese Maritime Safety Administration merged with Chinese Register of Shipping in 1998.

　

The Chinese Maritime Safety Administration system consists of two parts. The main part of the system is set by the MOC, that is the fifteen coastal maritime safety administrations and the two administrations in Yangtse River and Heilongjiang River. The major port sea areas and inland navigable waters are controlled by this part. The other part of the system is that in some provinces the Department of Transport of the provincial governments other than the MOC set up the respective district maritime safety 12 administrations. This is due to some historical reasons and that China is so large a country, it is sometime difficult to control everything from the central government. However, it is the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration's responsibility to offer technical guidance to such district offices.

All the district offices have the similar structure as the head office in the MOC. While in the district offices the statuary surveys for non-convention vessels and domestic vessels and issuing relevant certificates is still carried out by the former branches of Chinese Register of Shipping.

Currently there are 24 district offices authorized by the Chinese Maritime Safety Administration to carry out port State control under their respective jurisdiction, these district offices are:

　

　

　　　　　　　　―The Basic Data on Marine Transport