On March 14, 1988, a second naval war broke out between China and Vietnam. Before and after the naval war, China entered six islands and reefs in Nansha. Since then, the situation in the South China Sea has become more complicated and it has become difficult to enter new islands and reefs.
What is gratifying is that the fishery administration department overcomes all difficulties and seizes and enters Meiji Reef, Nansha. This is also the only island and reef that China has newly entered after the naval war.
Entering Meiji Reef is one of the most successful decisions of the fishery administration department, because Meiji Reef is almost in the center of the dense island group of Nansha. With Meiji Reef as the center, drawing a circle of 200 nautical miles can basically include half of the Nansha Islands and Reef.
Meiji Reef Location Map
Although Meiji Reef is less than half of Yongshu Reef , Meiji Reef Reef is complete, with the largest and most complete lagoon , and three gates (exits). The southwest gate is both wide and deep, and can pass through heavy tonnage ships. This is a condition that more than 200 other islands and reefs in Nansha do not meet or fully meet.
1994, Liu Guojun, director of the Nanhai District Fisheries Administration Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture, was ordered to personally take charge and work with relevant departments to carry out the task of building the wind sheltering facilities of the Meiji Reef. At the end of December 1994, the first generation of high-legged houses of Meiji Reef were completed, and marked that China's complete control of Meiji Reef.
Meiji Reef First and Second Generation High House
Era Project, the largest island in Nansha
On January 22, 2013, Philippine officially submitted a "arbitration" against China to the United Nations Court of the Law of the Sea, and the South China Sea turmoil broke out again.
In order to respond to the crisis, since 2014, China has begun to implement the most important part of the Nansha Islands and Reef Strategy, focusing on the construction of the Nansha Islands and Reefs.
In January 2015, construction of Meiji Island started.
At this time, it was in the early stage of the so-called "South China Sea Arbitration Case" verdict. The surrounding and international environment of the South China Sea were complex, and island building was regarded as a " blitzkrieg " in the field of infrastructure. The army and state-owned enterprises were closely combined and the 5.66 square kilometers of main island was filled in less than half a year, and the concrete shore protection was 25.7 kilometers long.
aerial photography of the construction site of Meiji Island
According to the front-line workers participating in the construction, there are construction sites everywhere during the peak construction period, and construction materials are piled up like mountains. On the island, picking up workers to the designated work area. The scale of construction is very similar to the development of new urban areas in mainland cities, and it is also like a vigorous production movement.
front-line employees on construction site
front-line employees on construction site
Now Meiji Island infrastructure is basically built, the main island plus South Island and effluent sandbank total area is about 6 square kilometers, which is equivalent to 12 Taiping Island .
Meiji Island is China's forward base and must be both offensive and defensive. There is a high-standard medium-sized airport built on the island. The airport runway is about 2,600 meters long. The airport successfully implemented a verification flight on July 12, 2016, which can take off and land for large transport aircraft . A large number of hangars and support facilities have been built next to the airport. The construction cycle of these facilities is so short that only China can do in the world. In the eyes of many countries, this is illogical.
Meiji Island Airport and Camp Satellite Map
After years of construction, Meiji Island's hospitals, cinemas, sports fields and open-air swimming pools are all available.
Both sides of the road are full of vitality, and flowers and plants are competing for beauty in front of the house and behind the house. The camp is surrounded by lush forests. Facing the sea breeze, a windbreak belt several kilometers long has been fully built, the island and reef ecosystem has basically been formed, and the former barren island and reef gradually turned into a beautiful sea garden.
Meiji Island Camp Satellite Map
Meiji Island Sports Field and Open-air Swimming Pool
Forests and Lighthouses in the middle of Meiji Island
Meiji Island grew from a reef to a large island, and then from a barren island reef to a beautiful sea garden. This series of changes took only more than eight years, and it is simply a classic case for mankind to defeat nature.
The completion of Meiji Island provides a strategic fulcrum for China to effectively control Nansha. Its role is not an exaggeration to describe it. It is an unforgettable project of the times. The large space reserved for its large space for imagination also provides huge imagination for subsequent development.
Nansha Meiji Island has not been built in area
The Philippines’ nationwide counterattack and retaliated against China for more than ten times
Since the founding of New China, my country’s navy has lagged behind and its control capabilities can only cover Xisha Islands . Long-term ban on the sea, weak ocean awareness and other factors have led to a large number of invasion of Nansha Islands .
As my country's comprehensive national strength increases and the country begins to strengthen its naval chart, it is found that high-quality islands and sandbanks in the Nansha have been basically occupied by neighboring countries, including Vietnam alone, and the Philippines has also occupied 8.
The more islands and reefs are occupied, the more facilities are occupied, and the more fierce the islands and reefs in the South China Sea are occupied by countries around the South China Sea, the rest are basically reefs, and reefs with superior reefs are also fiercely competed for. The more fierce the islands and reefs are, the more strategic the value they are.
If you want to enter a new island and reef, it will definitely cause huge disputes. The Meiji Reef that China has entered is one of the few high-quality islands and reefs in the Nansha. The Philippines responded very fiercely. After directly preventing the failure, it carried out more than ten retaliation actions around Meiji Reef, mainly taking three major measures.
First, it is to blow up China's sovereignty logo
On March 1, 1995, the Philippine military divided into two groups and destroyed the Chinese stone tablet on the north of Meiji Reef, Wufang Reef and the south of Meiji Reef .
Miji Island Distribution Map
Wufang Reef Satellite Map
On March 20, 1995, the Philippines announced the increase in troops to the Meiji Reef and nearby islands and reefs. The Philippines took the second move to set up some signs and shelters on Half Moon Reef to replace the destroyed Chinese signs and buildings.
March 23, 1995 The Philippine military took action three times and blew up the logo set by China on Wufang Reef, Banyue Reef, and Xianbin Reef .
The second is "stranded" the old warship
On May 9, 1999, the second day of NATO bombed our embassy in Yugoslavia.
The Philippines took the opportunity to sail the No. 57 tank landing ship to Renai Reef , claiming that "water leakage at the bottom of the ship" stranded it on the reef on the northwest side of Renai Reef, intending to "actual control". After
stranded, the Philippines continued to pour concrete into the hull, turning it into a concrete platform wrapped in steel, sending troops to garrison for a long time.
The tank landing ship of the Philippines "benched" Renai Reef
On March 14, 2014, the Philippine Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued a statement saying: Since 1999, the Philippines has deployed a Philippine active warship as a permanent facility on Renai Reef in response to China's 1995 "occupation" of Meiji Reef .
The Philippines' "stranded" plan was implemented four times, and then it was implemented three times in Huangyan Island , Wufang Reef and Banyue Reef, all of which ended in failure.
The third is to capture Chinese fishermen
According to data from the Nanhai District Fisheries Bureau of the Ministry of Agriculture: From 1989 to 2010, there were more than 380 incidents of neighboring countries attacking, robbing, arresting and shooting Chinese fishing boats and fishermen in the Nansha Sea, involving more than 750 fishing boats and 11,300 fishermen. Among them, 25 fishermen were beaten or missing, 24 fishermen were injured, and more than 800 fishermen were arrested and detained.
China's entry into Meiji Reef has made the Philippines' law enforcement extremely violent. The surrounding Half Moon Reef, Xianbin Reef, Xinyi Reef and other places are all high-incidence places for the Philippines to catch fishermen.
, especially Half Moon Reef, at most, 62 Chinese fishermen were arrested at one time. Few people know about . Almost every incident of killing and injuring fishermen is related to Half Moon Reef.
Half Moon Reef Satellite Map
Due to the Meiji Reef incident, Xianbin Reef was retaliated three times
Philippines' retaliation measures, the most passive thing in China is Xianbin Reef, which is very close to Meiji Island, and there was previously high-foot house stationed.
987, the China Nansha Comprehensive Scientific Expedition Team conducted a comprehensive survey on Nansha Islands , set up signs on 10 coral reefs in the northeast, and set up 167 observation locations throughout the archipelago.
scientific expedition team boarded 10 atolls for inspection, namely: Pongbou Darksha , Xianbin Reef, Niuche Wheel Reef , Renai Reef , Meiji Reef , Xian'e Reef , Xinyi Reef , Haikou Reef , Captain Reef and Half-Monthly Reef , and inspection signs are set up on these reefs.
Nansha Xianbin Reef Inspection
In this round of investigation, Xianbin Reef and Meiji Reef stood out.
992, China took the lead in setting up the first generation of high-foot houses on Xianbin Reef. A South China Sea sailor stationed on the front line later released photos of the first generation of high-foot houses on Xianbin Reef.
Xianbin Reef first-generation high-foot house
Miji Reef has a much better comprehensive condition than Xianbin Reef. Later, it became the Nansha Islands and Reef that China's key business operations. However, Xianbin Reef has become a key island for the Philippines to retaliate. The logos and high-foot houses set up in China on Reef were also blown up. According to relevant information, the Chinese buildings blown up by the Philippines are the second-generation high-foot houses of Xianbin Reef. After
After the Chinese buildings on Xianbin Reef were blown up, China strengthened patrols on Xianbin Reef after 2010, basically conducting routine patrols every month.
On December 11 and 12, 2011, two Chinese fishery administration ships and a Chinese naval warship patrolled the Xianbin Reef of the Nansha Islands. American reported: "China ship is obviously passing through the Meiji Reef that was actually occupied by nearby China."
hype against the US side, Luo Zhao, Director of the Asia Department of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asia Luo Zhao, Director of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Asia. Hui responded: "Protecting territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests is the fundamental goal of China's diplomacy. This will not be shaken. China does not cause trouble or is afraid of trouble. We know where the bottom line of its own interests is."
On July 26 and August 10, 2012, the 45,001 ship of China Fisheries Administration sent two law enforcement speedboat to Xianbin Reef, carried out patrols, and obtained first-hand information.
China Fisheries Administration 45001 ship
Since then, there have been few reports about Xianbin Reef, which shows that the Philippines has adapted to China's high-frequency patrols, and China has firmly controlled the control of Xianbin Reef. After the completion of Meiji Island, China's control of Xianbin Reef has become more stable.
Xianbin Reef Location Map
Xianbin Reef is an important part of the eastern atoll of the Nansha Islands. Its terrain is high and narrow. The reef is about 23 kilometers long, about 7 kilometers wide, and an area of 94.69 square kilometers.
Xianbin Reef Lagoon is located in the western part of the atoll, with an area of 47.5 square kilometers. The shallow lake is in the north with a water depth of 3.5-18 meters. The lagoon is highly open and should be designated as a semi-open atoll.
Xianbin Reef Satellite Map
The reef around Xianbin Reef is obvious, with an area of about 13 square kilometers. There are already small atolls developed at the western end, and the secondary lagoon is obvious.
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The dense areas of small islands can be connected by island bridges. Cruise terminals and fishery terminals can be built in the central area islands and the northwest islands respectively to form large fishery bases and tourist bases.
Xianbin Reef can be developed reef
Recently, the new high school geography course launched by HUST Affiliated Middle School of Huazhong University of Science and Technology is refreshing and exciting.
course takes "Marine Space Resource Development and National Security" as an example, extending from "How to develop marine space resources" and "How to develop marine space resources affect national resource security" to "How to protect marine rights and interests".
During this period, the students turned into planners and tried to formulate development plans for Xianbin Reef in the South China Sea of my country with the themes of energy, tourism, and comprehensive development.
classroom explanation, requiring group-based development plan for Xianbin Reef
In the classroom, the teacher also specially introduced the Yongshu Island development case at the end of the course, so that students can deeply understand the "islands and reefs are small, but they are sacred and inviolable territory in our country" and the marine development strategy of our country "facing the sea, prospering towards the sea, pursuing dreams of deep blue, and strong towards the sea chart".
Yongshu Island Latest Satellite Map
Yongshu Island Camp Satellite Map
0The formation of a passive situation in the South China Sea, weak marine awareness is the fundamental reason. The Geography Class of Huazhong University of Science and Technology Affiliated Middle School allows students to formulate plans for the development of Xianbin Reef. While activating the students' brains, it greatly strengthens the ocean awareness of the new generation of young people. It is worthy of being a key middle school.
The completion of the Meiji Island project in this era has allowed China to firmly control a large number of high-quality atolls in the northeast of Nansha. The Philippines' revenge has instead allowed China to continuously control large atolls such as Banyue Reef, Xianbin Reef, Xinyi Reef and Wufang Reef, helping my country's maritime development strategy of "facing the sea, prospering towards the sea, pursuing a dream deep blue, and strong towards the sea chart" to be implemented as soon as possible.
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