Comparative Study On The Marine Practice Of China, Japan And South Korea Under The United Nations Convention On The Law Of The Sea

The ocean is the Earth's largest body of water geographical unit. Earth's surface area is about 510 million square kilometers, of which the area of marine is 360 million square kilometers, accounting for about 71 percent of the Earth's surface. The ocean is a basic component of the global life-support system as well as the treasure house of natural resources and is an importance environmental regulator. Just because of these realities and potential value to the humanity, the sovereign countries began to trigger a vigorous campaign marine Quantize. Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the sea regulated such campaign from the ultimate outcome of the meeting—United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.The Convention is divided into 17 parts, with nine annex, total 446 articles. It mainly includes: territorial sea, contiguous zone, the exclusive economic zone, continental shelf, straits used for international navigation, the Islands, island system, closed or semi-enclosed seas, landlocked countries access to the sea and the rights of transit freedom, the International Seabed and the ocean science research, marine environmental protection and security, the development and transfer of marine technology, and so on. The Convention creates the system of territorial sea, contiguous zone system, the exclusive economic zone system, the system of the international sailing across the pass and the "area" system, established the principle of natural extension of the continental shelf,The Convention arouses worldwide marine areas realigned and further forces states to maintenance its marine rights and interests with the increasing disputes between states. Japan and South Korea as China's marine neighbors under the system of the convention produce series of ocean delimitation disputes. Therefore, how to use the Convention to effective safeguard China's maritime rights and interests must be significantly more important.This paper is based on the above considerations about comparison and analysis of the China-Japan-South Korea state practice under the system of the Convention in order to seek experience and produce recommendations on how to defend China's maritime rights and interests.In the demonstration methods, the paper respectively analysis China, Japan and Korea 's practice in the application of the Convention at the same level.In the style arrangements, the paper has seven components.Chapter 1 is mainly about the background and main contents as well as the impact on the marine order of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea.Chapter 2 is mainly about the marine environment of China Japan and South Korea as a geographical comparison, focuses on geographical situation of East China Sea, Yellow Sea and South China Sea as well as maritime rights and interests conflicts among Japan and South Korea.Chapter 3 is mainly about China, Japan, South Korea ocean strategy, the "China Ocean Agenda 21," "Japan, the 21st century Ocean Policy Proposal" and the "Ocean Korea 21".Chapter 4 is mainly about China marine legislative problems by comparing Japan and South Korea in the marine legislation.Chapter 5 is mainly about the exclusive economic zone system, respectively analysing the exclusive economic zone demarcation disputes between Japan and South Korea, and "ChongZhi niao", "Su Rocks" and "Ju / Dodo "on some issues.Chapter 6 is mainly about China and "area".Chapter 7 is mainly about China's suggestions on the basis of analysis above.