Nanhai English

The South China Sea, located in the south of Chinese mainland, is one of the three marginal seas of the western Pacific Ocean and China. The natural sea area of this sea area is about 3.5 million square kilometers, which is the largest and deepest sea area in China's offshore area, with an average water depth of 1.2 1.02 meters and a maximum water depth of 5559 meters. China's territorial sea consists of the Bohai Sea (inland sea), the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the South China Sea, and the coastline of the eastern and southern continents is 65,438+08,000 kilometers. The inland and offshore waters cover an area of about 4.7 million square kilometers.

The South China Sea is one of the most important islands in China, which is rich in marine oil and gas mineral resources, coastal and island tourism resources, marine energy resources, port shipping resources and tropical and subtropical biological resources.