He Zhaoxiong put forward in the article "On Ocean Consciousness" that "ocean consciousness refers to the understanding of the ways and means adopted by human beings for their own survival and development in the ecological environment formed by the ocean".
Yang Chengzhi put forward that "ocean consciousness is the general term for a country or nation to know its own ocean and even the world's ocean in a certain period of time and comprehensively develop and utilize marine resources".
Wen Guangyu put forward through research that marine consciousness mainly includes six aspects: marine land consciousness, marine wealth consciousness, marine resources consciousness, marine competition consciousness, marine environment consciousness and marine safety consciousness.
Qian Yanping defined ocean consciousness as people's overall understanding or reflection of the role, status and importance of the existence and development of the ocean and human society. Feng Liang believes that the ocean consciousness of the Chinese nation in the 2nd1century, as a social consciousness, refers to a rational understanding of the position, function and value system of the ocean in the history, reality and especially the future development of the Chinese nation in the 2nd1century. In his view, marine consciousness is mainly composed of marine traffic consciousness, marine resources consciousness, marine space consciousness, marine science and technology consciousness, marine game consciousness, marine rich country consciousness, peaceful and peaceful sea consciousness, marine rising consciousness, scientific development marine consciousness and building marine harmonious world consciousness.