Abstract：Currently, the deep-sea infrastructure, such as submarine cables, submarine data centers and equipment for seabed resource extraction, has been receiving widespread attention. The international community’s inability to control competitions over the deep-sea infrastructure poses the risk of conflicts erupting in the field of global deep-sea infrastructure. Deep-sea infrastructure governance has been becoming an emerging and urgent challenge for global ocean governance. At the same time, the internal factors of deep-sea infrastructure have also aggravated the difficulty of international deep-sea space governance. The rapid development of global deep-sea infrastructure urgently requires the international community to shape reasonable infrastructure rules and a strict control mechanism. But, the lack of relevant rules will affect the international situation, and it may become a constraint on building a maritime community with a shared future. As an important force in global ocean governance, China should be guided by the concept of building a maritime community with a shared future, actively lead the construction of international rules of deep-sea infrastructure, and promote the institutionalization and standardization of global deep-sea infrastructure governance.
2024, Vol. 32 
