Sansha

Sansha is a prefecture-stage city of Hainan province of the People's Republic of China PRC. It is positioned on Woody island and administers certainly or nominally several island groups and undersea atolls in the South China Sea consisting of the Spratly Islands, the Paracel Islands, Macclesfield Bank, Scarborough Shoal, and a number of other ungrouped maritime functions. The whole territory is disputed and the PRC's de facto control over the location ies. Foreign response to the declaration become now not fine.

The United States Department of State called the trade within the administrative fame of the territory "unilateral", and the move has received complaint from international locations engaged within the South China Sea dispute, mainly the Philippines and Vietnam. Sansha has identical administrative status to a prefecture-stage metropolis, and turned into created on 24 July 2012. Reports in 2012 in the China daily stated that the established order of Sansha changed into honestly an improve of the executive popularity of those island companies from the previous county-level Administrative Office,.

Subsequent trends have became Sansha city located on Woody island right into a small metropolis with a small non industrial airport and a small harbor with two units of breakwaters. Sansha administers a collection of 260 islands, reefs and seashores located inside the Spratlys Nansha, Paracel, Xisha islands and Zhongsha islands.