China News Service, Nanchang, June 23 (Reporter Zhu Ying) On the 23rd, the General Office of the Standing Committee of the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Congress held a press conference on the “Jiangxi Provincial Water Area Public Security Management Regulations” (hereinafter referred to as the “Regulations”). The “Regulations” will come into effect on July 1, 2026, explicitly including “relevant venues within water areas” into the scope of application, highlighting “co-governance of water and shore.”
Jiangxi Province has a developed water system with a dense network of rivers. Water areas account for approximately 10% of the province’s total land area, with 152 kilometers of Yangtze River coastline and a total length of rivers of about 18,400 kilometers. Maintaining water area safety, stability, and ecological environmental security is particularly important.
“For a period of time, the public security situation in our province’s water areas has undergone significant changes and become increasingly complex,” said Jiang Hui, member of the Party Committee and Deputy Director of the Jiangxi Provincial Public Security Department. He introduced that with the full implementation of the Yangtze River Protection Strategy, the solid progress of the fishing ban and withdrawal work, the booming rise of new business forms such as water leisure and entertainment, incidents such as illegal passenger transport by “three-no” vessels, vehicle crushing damaging wetlands, illegal fishing, and illegal hunting of migratory birds have occurred from time to time. Various types of water activities (such as dragon boat races and water fireworks shows) are increasing. The original “Regulations” could no longer meet the needs of the new situation, making it necessary to re-enact the “Regulations” through the method of abolishing the old and establishing the new.
The “Regulations” consist of thirty articles, with main contents including clarifying the scope of application and responsibilities, improving the water area public security prevention and control system, perfecting water area public security supervision measures, and strengthening the public security management of vessels and personnel, constructing a modern governance system of “water-shore integration, ecological co-governance.”
Among them, the “Regulations” highlight “co-governance of water and shore.” The scope of application includes not only traditional rivers, lakes, and reservoirs but also specifically incorporates land-water交界 zones such as islands, mudflats, grassy shoals, and bank slopes. To solve the previous problem of unclear boundaries between water and land public security jurisdiction, the “Regulations” stipulate that public security organs of people’s governments at or above the county level shall reasonably divide the public security jurisdiction scope of water and land according to law, achieving full coverage and leaving no regulatory blind spots.
The “Regulations” highlight regional cooperation, explicitly stating that people’s governments at or above the county level shall strengthen collaboration and coordination with people’s governments at the same level in neighboring provinces adjacent to water areas, jointly promoting comprehensive water area public security governance. The public security department of the Jiangxi Provincial People’s Government shall strengthen police cooperation with public security organs of other provincial people’s governments in the Yangtze River Basin and the Yangtze River Shipping Public Security Bureau to enhance water area law enforcement efficiency, etc.
In addition, the “Regulations” highlight ecological protection, combining Jiangxi’s ecological advantages to further strengthen the protection of wetlands and migratory birds, as well as the supervision of “three-no” vessels. The “Regulations” grant forestry and other wetland management departments and public security organs the power to take preliminary disposal measures, such as impoundment and ordering the cessation of flight, for violations such as illegally driving motor vehicles in the Poyang Lake wetland area, or illegally using unmanned aerial vehicles to interfere with the normal habitat activities of migratory birds in important migratory bird habitats.
“In the next step, we will take the implementation of the ‘Regulations’ as an opportunity to deeply study, publicize, and implement them, perform our duties according to law, promote the effective implementation of the ‘Regulations’ with more concrete measures and stricter work style, fully advance the high-quality development of the province’s water area public security management work, and contribute to building a higher level of rule-of-law Jiangxi and safe Jiangxi,” Jiang Hui said. (End)
