Time to steer Chinese maritime power into the mainstream

First Person | Yang Guozhen

Yang Guozhen is the former director of the history department of Xiamen University. He was one of the first maritime history researchers in China and founded studies of the subject at Xiamen University in 1991.

I was born in Fujian's Longyan city and moved to the coastal city of Xiamen in 1949. So I have experience and became interested in maritime culture and history in my early life. As I continued my research in maritime history, I found that the development of maritime power had never been valued in China, although we had the maritime Silk Road and far sea voyages as far back as thousands of years ago.