The history of China's seafaring exploration came to an end when the Ming Dynasty carried out the policy of "maritime embargo".

中国的航海史随着明朝禁海政策的开始而宣布结束，而另一个大航海时代在欧洲悄然开始，这就是史上著名的地理大发现时代。

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"The success of the cabinet depends on the vision of the President, " says Sarwono Kusumaatmadja, who heads the new Ministry of Maritime Exploration.

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"Shipwrecks help to fill in some of the unwritten pages of history, " said Frank Cantelas, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research.

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For instance, sea ice is predicted to increasingly shrink as a result of climate change: the late-summer Arctic sea ice may vanish almost entirely by the middle of the century, triggering unprecedented maritime challenges, with an increase in shipping and oil and gas exploration in high-latitude waters previously covered in ice.

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