A Comparative Study On The East China Sea Maritime Rights Enforcement

The East China Sea connected to Chinese mainland, which landform and geological structure is very complex. It has a broad continental shelf, and the sea bed is rich in oil and gas resources. Because of historical and geographical reasons, the issue of the East China Sea has been the dispute between Chinese and Japan. In recent years, with the increasing of the ocean importance in the international strategic position, and the formulation and implementation of national ocean strategy, the situation of the East China Sea between China and Japan has become more and more severe. The issue of the Diaoyu Islands, East China Sea demarcation disputes, the Okinawa islands in the East China Sea issue has become controversial focus during the day. With the issue of the East China Sea is becoming more and more serious, sea rights and interests conflict between China and Japan is growing. In order to maintain the respective national marine rights and interests, Chinese and Japan will put the sea to national strategic height; strengthen the construction of maritime law enforcement team. But it is not difficult to see from the issue of the Okinawa Islands in the East China, in the law enforcement process, the maritime law enforcement China compared with Japan is relatively passive, and Japan infringe the sovereignty behavior of China’s Diaoyu Islands have repeatedly occurred. In the face of the grim situation in the sea, China must study Japanese maritime rights enforcement trends and comparison between China and Japan East China Sea maritime law enforcement status for occupy the active position in the East China Sea rights.The East China Sea maritime rights enforcement situation is grim, although the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea for the maintenance of maritime rights and interests provides the basic legal protection, but the limitations of the system of the Convention and the relevant provisions of the, but also to some countries against China’s maritime rights and interests has left an opportunity. Therefore, strengthen marine legislation, establish and improve the comprehensive marine management system of law enforcement, to create a unified, efficient marine law enforcement team, plays an important role in maintaining our sea rights. At the same time, we should strengthen the cruise efficiency of the East China Sea, refine the normalization of the waters surrounding the Diaoyu Islands cruise, and establish a reasonable cruise mode, with the overall sea strategy of the East Sea implementation of the sea. To establish perfect maritime rights enforcement action coordination mechanism, strengthen departments coordination, by turning the passive active, flexible thinking and positive control mechanism effectively safeguard our sea rights.