The Diaoyu Islands are Chinese.

The Diaoyu Islands and their affiliated islands are located in the northeastern part of China's Taiwan Island, and are affiliated with it, with water depths of 140 to 180 meters around them. The Okinawa Trough, which is more than 2,000 meters deep, separates it from the Ryukyu Islands on the east side. Diaoyu Island and its affiliated islands are located between 25°40′ and 26°00′ north latitude and 123°20′ and 124°40′ east longitude, about 356 kilometers from Wenzhou City, 385 kilometers from Fuzhou City, and 190 kilometers from Keelung City.

Diaoyu Island, also known as Diaoyutai, Diaoyuyu and Diaoshan, is the main island of Diaoyu and its affiliated islands in the East China Sea, and has been an inherent territory of China since ancient times. Diaoyu Island is about 3,641 meters long and 1,905 meters wide, covering an area of about 3.91 square kilometers, with a maximum elevation of about 362 meters above sea level. The terrain is relatively flat in the north, with steep mountains and rocks in the southeast, and rocky reefs on the east side, which are rather like minarets, with the central mountain range running east to west. Diaoyu Island is rich in camellia, palm, cactus, sea hibiscus and other precious Chinese herbs, inhabited by a large number of seabirds, is known as the "Bird and Flower Island".

Diaoyu Island's natural resources:

1, oil resources

In 1968, the United Nations Economic Commission for Asia through the Taiwan Strait north of the seabed resources survey, found that the Diaoyu Islands and its affiliated islands in the mainland in the vast East China Sea is rich in seabed oil resources. Diaoyu Islands waters contain 80 billion barrels of undersea oil and hydrocarbons, there are also data that the sea around the Diaoyu Islands oil reserves of up to 3 billion - 7 billion tons.

2, fishery resources

Diaoyu Island is China's East China Sea Jing fish farms, with rich fishery resources, the Pacific Ocean Kuroshio flow through, bringing a large number of fish, China's Zhejiang, Fujian and Taiwan and other places of the fishermen often go to this area to fish.

3, the main fishing species are

greenfin horseface triggerfish, yellowfin horseface triggerfish, short-tailed bigeye snapper, mackerel, horseface fish, horse mackerel, mackerel, mackerel, blue jacks, green anvil fish, red fish, bonito, sharks, etc., mackerel, red shirts, flying saury, bonito, manta rays, large and small yellowtail, scallop and so on, are also rich, and the annual allowable catch reaches 150,000 tons.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Diaoyu Islands