Two fleets of Chinese marine surveillance ships are carrying out separate regular patrol missions simultaneously on the South China Sea, the State Oceanic Administration (SOA) said Saturday. Haijian 84 and Haijian 74 left Guangzhou port on Monday and arrived at the waters south to the Xisha Islands, an administration statement said, adding that they would […]
China has inked for the first time South China Sea islands on its new official maps in equal scale to that of the Chinese mainland. The new vertical-format maps of China, published by Sinomaps Press, include more than 130 islands and islets in the South China Sea, most of which have not been featured on […]
China on Thursday urged Vietnam to halt unilateral oil and gas development in the two countries’ overlapping waters in the South China Sea. Foreign Ministry spokesman Hong Lei made the comments at a daily press briefing in response to a Vietnamese Foreign Ministry spokesman’s remarks made on Wednesday that criticized China for violating its sovereignty […]
China and Vietnam pledged to further promote their partnership on Saturday. The pledge came out of a meeting between Liu Yunshan, a member of the Standing Committee of the Political Bureau of the Communist Party of China (CPC) Central Committee and Hoang Binh Quan, the special envoy of the Communist Party of Vietnam (CPV) General […]
A joint team of scholars from the Chinese mainland and Taiwan will study borderlines and other related issues regarding the South China Sea, a leading expert has said. During a press conference on Tuesday on release of the Report on the South China Sea-2011, Wu Shicun, president of the National Institute for South China Sea […]
Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ma Xiaotian (L) shakes hands with Vietnamese Deputy Defense Minister Nguyen Tri Vinh prior to the sixth China-Vietnam Defense and Security Consultation in Hanoi, Vietnam, Sept. 3, 2012. Deputy Chief of the General Staff of the Chinese People’s Liberation Army Ma Xiaotian (2nd […]
Rival Claims China’s recent establishment of Sansha city, an administrative municipality based on three islands in the South China Sea, has led to increasing tensions in recent weeks over which of six different governments has a legitimate claim to all or parts of the Spratly and Paracel island chains. The islands and their surrounding waters, […]
A Foreign Ministry spokesman on Monday urged Vietnam to act in ways that are conducive to bilateral ties and the peace and stability of the South China Sea. “China always opposes countries’ moves to aggravate and complicate the situation in the South China Sea,” Liu Weimin said at a regular news briefing in response to […]
The National People’s Congress (NPC), China’s top legislature, on Friday urged Vietnam to correct an erroneous maritime law it passed on Thursday. The Foreign Affairs Committee of the NPC expressed its position concerning the recent passing of the Vietnamese Law of the Sea in a letter to the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the Vietnamese […]
The affiliated company of Chongqing Foreign Trade and Economic Cooperation (Group) Co., Ltd. won the bid for Vietnam HOI XUAN hydropower project on March 21, 2012 with a contract amount of 100 million US dollars. The project is the 6th hydropower project in Vietnam undertaken by the company. As the general contractor, the company will […]