The breadth of the territrial sea

On September 4 ; 1958;The Government of the people’s Requblic of china declare the breadth of china’s territorial sea to be 12 nautical miles. The provision applies to all territories of the people’s Republice of china, including the Chines mainland and its coastal islands, as well as Taiwan and its surrounding islands, the peng Island, the Dongsha islands, the Xisha Islands, the Zhongsha Islands, the Nansha Islands and all other islands belonging to china which are separated from the mainland and its coastal islands by the high seas. China’s territorial sea along the mainland and its coastal island takes as its baseline the line composed of the straight lines connecting certain base-points on the mainland coast and on the outermost of the coastal islands; the water area extending 12 nautical miles out from this baseline is China’s territorial sea. The water ares inside the baseline, including the Bohai and the Qionzhou Straits, are Chinese inland Waters, and the islands inside the baseline are China’s inland island.