从国际法角度浅析中日东海油气田之争（Analysis of Sino Japanese oil and gas fields in East China Sea from the perspective of international law）.doc

从国际法角度浅析中日东海油气田之争（Analysis of Sino Japanese oil and gas fields in East China Sea from the perspective of international law） The ocean contains a wealth of resources. Because the oceans are more difficult to divide than land, the scope of rights in the ocean has been the focus of controversy in many countries. As a coastal country, China and island countries, Japan across the sea, conflicts of interest continue. Among them, the dispute over the Sino Japanese East China oil and gas field originates from the dispute over the demarcation of the exclusive economic zone between China and japan. In accordance with the provisions of the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea, coastal states may begin to calculate from the baseline of the coast, within 200 nautical miles as their own exclusive economic zone. All the resources in the exclusive economic zone are owned by coastal countries. But China and Japan have serious differences over the boundaries of the exclusive economic zone of the East China Sea, which is less than 400 nautical miles wide in the East China sea. Japan believes it should be based on the middle line of the two countries to divide the exclusive economic zone of Japan and China in the East China sea. But Chinese believes that the East China Sea topography and landform structure determines the division between China and Japans exclusive economic zone boundary should follow the natural extension of the continental shelf principle, does not recognize the so-called middle line in Japan and Japan unilaterally proposed. Because of the United Nations Convention on the law of the sea the seventy-sixth stipulation: the coastal continental shelf includes outside the territorial waters of its land territory, according to all the natural extension of the expansion of the seabed and subsoil seabed area to the outer edge of the continental margin. However, the problem has emerged, and the judgment of the continental shelf is also the focus of the Sino Japanese