How is China's territorial sea divided?

In the east of Chinese mainland, from north to south, the Bohai Sea, the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the Yellow Sea and the four seas are connected, and Taiwan Province Island is the largest island in China.

China has a land territory of 9.6 million square kilometers. In addition to the vast mainland, there are more than 6,500 islands distributed in the Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and there is a long and tortuous coastline of18,000 kilometers near the Pacific Ocean.

China's territorial waters include the whole Bohai Sea, the Yellow Sea, a part of the East China Sea, the South China Sea, the waters around Taiwan Province Island and some areas of the surrounding seabed recognized by international law, with a total area of about 3 million square kilometers.

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The Chinese nation is one of the earliest nations in the world to develop and utilize marine resources. In ancient times, there was a record of "floating in the sea by fork". During the Spring and Autumn Period, the Qi people benefited from fishing and salt in the East China Sea, and then the Maritime Silk Road started from China.

In the early Ming Dynasty, Zheng He, a great navigator, led a huge fleet to the Western Ocean for seven times and visited more than 30 countries in Asia and Africa, reaching the east coast of Africa and the coast of the Red Sea as far as possible, 87 years earlier than Columbus in Europe. At that time, China's shipbuilding technology and navigation technology were undoubtedly in the forefront of the world. Historically, China is a veritable maritime power.

However, the long tradition of farming society has bound the thinking of China people. China has confined its activities to land for a long time, and China's sea of people has lagged behind the era of the rise of capitalism. The closed-door policy in the Ming and Qing Dynasties eventually led to the fiasco of the Opium War in 1864. Since the Sino-British treaty of nanking, China has fallen into the abyss of semi-colonial and semi-feudal society and started a century-long nightmare of losing power and humiliating the country.