China Coast Guard has cumulatively deployed vessels 550,000 times over five years, with the number of patrols around the Diaoyu Islands reaching a new high.

【China Coast Guard has cumulatively mobilized 550,000 ship sorties for rights protection missions; 357 days of surveillance around the Diaoyu Islands in 2025】 Economic Observer, according to news from the CCTV News client, the "People's Republic of China Coast Guard Law" was officially implemented on February 1, 2021. Today, the China Coast Guard held a special interview on maritime law enforcement following the implementation of the Coast Guard Law for five years. In the interview, Director Zhang Jianming of the China Coast Guard stated that the China Coast Guard resolutely implements the decision-making and deployment of the Party Central Committee, adheres to flexible measures and legally regulates and controls infringement provocations by relevant countries, effectively deters "Taiwan independence" separatist acts, and firmly defends national territorial sovereignty and maritime rights and interests.

Over the past five years, the China Coast Guard has cumulatively mobilized 550,000 ship sorties and 6,000 aircraft to carry out maritime rights protection missions, organized 134 times of maritime surveillance in the territorial waters of the Diaoyu Islands, and achieved 357 days of surveillance in the Diaoyu Islands in 2025. It regularly conducts rights protection patrols in the East China Sea, South China Sea, and Yellow Sea, and enforces inspections and patrols around the waters near the Taiwan Island and its affiliated islands, as well as law enforcement control in the territorial waters and surrounding areas of the Huangyan Island.

Over the past five years, the China Coast Guard has continuously innovated operational strategies, optimized management models, and strengthened capacity building, promptly sensing, rapidly responding to, and effectively dealing with foreign infringement activities, achieving new breakthroughs in the three-dimensional air and sea surveillance of the Diaoyu Islands, shaping a new situation in maritime rights protection, and building a new pattern of legal management in the Taiwan Strait based on the One-China Principle.

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