Dongsha

the Dongsha Islands

synonym

The Dongsha Islands (the Dongsha Islands of South China Sea) generally refer to Dongsha Islands.

The Dongsha Islands, known as "drop" and "stone star pond", were called "Dongshi".

It is one of the four major South China Sea Islands in China. It is located about 260 km south of Shanwei City in Guangdong Province and 315 km southeast of the Pearl River Estuary. It is located in the north of the tropics and has a tropical monsoon climate.

The Dongsha Islands are composed of Dongsha atolls (Dongsha Island and Dongsha reef), South Beach atolls (reefs) and North Wei beach atolls (reefs). Among them, the reef of Dongsha Island is crescent shaped, and Chaoshan fishermen are also known as crescent island. It covers an area of 1.8 square kilometers, with an altitude of only 6 meters. It is formed by the accumulation of coral based biological debris.

The Dongsha Islands are the most northern islands, the closest to the mainland and the least reefs in the South China Sea Islands. Before the Jin Dynasty, fishermen from the Dongguan area came to the sea near the Dongsha Islands to catch and collect coral and other seafood.

. Administrative division belongs to Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, Guangdong Province

It is under the actual jurisdiction of Qijin District, Kaohsiung City, Taiwan Province.

Historical evolution

ancient

In ancient times, Dongsha Island was called "Luojia", "nanaoqi" and "dadongsha". Because it is located in the east of Wanshan archipelago, it is called "Dongsha". It is the earliest developed island in the history of the South China Sea. It was known to the Chinese as early as the Jin Dynasty more than 1000 years ago

. Before the Jin Dynasty, fishermen from the Dongguan area came to fishing and collecting coral and other seafood in the vicinity of the Dongsha Islands for fishing. In Peiyuan's Guangzhou, coral island is 500 Li south of Dongguan county. People used to fish in the sea and get coral. "Coral island" refers to Dongsha Island and its atolls.

The Dongsha Islands are "Nan'ao gas" and the book of "sea state smell seeing" is also called the Dongsha Islands as Nan'ao gas.

The Dongsha Islands began to develop and operate in the Chinese Ming Dynasty. In fifteenth Century, Zheng He's voyage chart in the Western Ocean was the stone star pond in the Dongsha Islands, which was in the sea map of Zheng He.

From 1710 to 1712 (49-51 years of Kangxi reign of the Qing Dynasty), the Qing government sent Wu Sheng, the Deputy General of the Navy, and in 1907 (33 years of Guangxu reign), Li Zhun, the governor of Guangdong Navy, to inspect Xisha and Dongsha Islands respectively.

It was called "Dongsha" in Xie Qinggao's Hai Lu in the late Qing Dynasty

The Dongsha Islands were officially incorporated into China's territory in the eleven years (1730) of Qing Dynasty Yong Zheng. They belonged to Lufeng County, Huizhou Prefecture, Guangdong province.

. Fishermen in southern China have been fishing for many years

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modern

According to Liang Sheng, a fisherman in the Qing Dynasty, in the 1860s (during the reign of Tongzhi in the Qing Dynasty), a large number of fishermen from Guangdong and Hainan went there to fish, collect algae and catch turtles, and set up wooden factories on Dongsha Island to process salted fish and seaweed. However, because Dongsha Island is small and located in a corner, it has always been uninhabited for a long time and is only used by boatman for fishing and rest.

In 1899, the shareholders of guang'anxiang fishing boat built a wooden shed on Dongsha Island for drying gelatinous vegetables and seafood. The cost was more than 4000 yuan.

In 1907, Japanese businessman Nishizawa Yoji seized more than a hundred people and invaded the Dongsha Islands by the Shikoku Maru, demolishing the king's temple and driving the fishermen.

To destroy the tombs, hang the Japanese flag, erect wooden cards, the Dongsha Islands are called "no land" and changed to West Island. When the Qing government heard about this, it immediately called Zhang Renjun, governor of Guangdong and Guangxi to investigate. Zhang Ren Jun sent Li Zhun, the governor of Guangdong, to the Dongsha Islands for inspection and investigation. "And Liu Guanxiong, general manager of the sea yard, set up a flag platform on Dongsha Island, and sent a water stationer. It is beyond all doubt that the Dongsha Islands belong to our territory.

In October 1909, the Guangdong authorities negotiated with Japan to recover the Dongsha Islands in Dongsha Islands, and decided to appoint the alternate governor Cai Kang to receive Dongsha Island.

. After taking back Dongsha Island from Japanese businessmen, the Chinese government invited businessmen to undertake fishery. Businessmen have applied for the development and operation of phosphorus and sea grass in the Dongsha Islands.

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In the middle of May 1910, in order to strengthen the administrative management of Dongsha Island, the Qing government set up the "Management Committee of Dongsha Island", which was responsible for the management of Dongsha Island Affairs. Cai Kang was appointed as a member of the committee, and a report was published.

After the founding of the Republic of China, the Dongsha Islands are managed by the Guangdong provincial government. The Dongsha Islands were designated as naval military areas in 1925 to strengthen the management of the Dongsha Islands, and later approved by the Beiyang government. The KMT Coast Guard Office has issued a notice on the matter through the newspapers after receiving the specific instructions of the Navy Department. Only because the Dongsha Islands still belong to the Guangdong provincial territory in the administrative area, the administrative affairs are still managed by the Guangdong provincial government.

In the spring of 1935, the Guangdong Provincial Construction Department of agriculture and Forestry Bureau proposed to strengthen the management of the Dongsha Islands to meet the "rich and natural resources" proposal. After the approval of the Guangdong provincial government, the "Dongsha Island Marine Product Management Office" was set up, and Liang Liang was appointed Director of the management department. Later, the Dongsha Island Marine Management Office was renamed the Dongsha Islands management office.

During the Second World War, it was occupied by Japan and was a part of the New South Islands. It was under the jurisdiction of Kaohsiung City, Kaohsiung Prefecture.

After the end of the Second World War, the government of the Republic of China put it under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province in 1945.

In 1946, the Chinese Army waded into the island to receive it and sent troops to garrison it.

In 1947, the Department of construction of Guangdong Province handed over the right to manage Dongsha Island's marine products to Nanfang fishery company for five years.

In early 1949, the Dongsha Islands were placed under the jurisdiction of the Hainan Special Administrative Region.

modern

In October 1949, the Kuomintang retreated to Taiwan Province and continued to control Dongsha.

In July 1979, the Taiwan authorities, together with the Spratly Islands, were placed under the jurisdiction of the Kaohsiung municipality and managed by the coast guard department and the district office was established.

. The Chinese mainland is assigned the administrative division to Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, Shanwei City, Guangdong province.

On November 12, 1998, the amateur radio Promotion Association of Taiwan province carried out eight days and seven nights communication activities in Dongsha Island. It was the first time to try to connect the short-range VHF 144mhz channel. It successfully completed the connection with the Taiwan ham people temporary radio station, which was set up 850 kilometers away beside Taibei Tatun mountain and Linkou Changgeng hospital. It also set a record for the connection with ultra-low power below one watt.

On May 16, 1999, Hsieh Chang Ting, the mayor of Kaohsiung, went to the fishermen's service station on the island to hang up the house sign of "No.31 Dongsha, 18 adjacent to Zhongxing lane, Qijin district".

In December 21, 2000, Chen Shuibian inspected the Dongsha Islands, claiming that the South China Sea policy was aimed at "peaceful sharing" and achieved its goal of "establishing the oceans", but it did not get any response from Southeast Asian countries.

On July 28, 2005, Chen Shui Bian, then leader of Taiwan, visited Dongsha Island for the second time.

In 2006, Taiwan Province decided to build an airstrip on Taiping Island, which was completed in December 2007.

On January 17, 2007, Dongsha Atoll National Park was established, becoming the first Marine National Park in Taiwan and the largest national park in Taiwan. On October 4, Dongsha Island was brought under the jurisdiction of the newly established marine national park administration.

On September 10, 2008, Ma Ying Jeou, then leader of the Taiwan region, visited Dongsha Island.

On April 17, 2019, the standard maps of counties and districts in Guangdong Province were published on the website of Guangdong Provincial Department of natural resources

The Dongsha Islands, as a map of Shanwei City, shows that the Dongsha Islands should be under the jurisdiction of Jieshi Town, Lufeng City, Shanwei.

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Dongsha geography

geographical position

The Dongsha Islands are located in the northeast of the South China Sea, and are located in the city of Shanwei, Guangdong Province, covering the streets of the city of shlang, according to the provincial standard maps of counties and districts published by the natural resources department of Guangdong province.

, Hainan Island, Taiwan Island and Luzon Island in the Philippines. It is about 260 km south of Lufeng City and 315 km southeast of the Pearl River Estuary. In the sea area between 20 ° 33 ′ N and 21 ° 10 ′ N and 115 ° 54 ′ E and 116 ° 57 ′ E.

The Dongsha Islands are located at the important international traffic hub, 260 kilometers north of Jieshi port, 450 kilometers south of Paracel Islands, 780 kilometers southeast of Manila, 440 kilometers and 425 kilometers from Kaohsiung port to Penghu port, and 315 kilometers from Hongkong to Hongkong, 670 kilometers from Yulin to Hainan Island. It is the northernmost part of the South China Sea Islands, 240 Li (444 km) from Kaohsiung port in the northeast and 640 Li (1185 km) from Taiping island in Nansha in the south.

component

There are three coral atolls in Dongsha: Dongsha Atoll (Dongsha Island and Dongsha reef), nanweitan Atoll (reef) and beiweitan Atoll (reef). Dongsha Island is about 80 kilometers away from Nanwei and Beiwei beaches. The diameter of Dongsha is about 30 kilometers.

Geological topography

The diameter of Dongsha is about 30 kilometers. According to the estimation of scholars, it will take at least 30 kilometers to form such a large one

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