在我国辽阔的南海海面南端,有一群巨大的椭圆形珊瑚礁群,这就是南沙群岛,西方通常称为斯普拉特利群岛(spratly islands)。南沙群岛历来是中国神圣领土不可分割的一部分,但20世纪80年代以来,南海周边一些国家开始对它提出领土要求,并不顾中国政府的强烈反对,吞食南沙岛礁。未经中国政府允许,恣意开采各岛周围的海底矿产资源,对中 At the southern tip of China’s vast South China Sea, there is a large group of oval coral reefs. This is the Nansha Islands, and the west is often called the spratly islands. The Nansha Islands have always been an inseparable part of the sacred territory of China. Since the 1980s, however, some countries around the South China Sea have begun to impose territorial claims on it and have swallowed the Nansha Islands reef despite the strong opposition of the Chinese government. Without the permission of the Chinese government, it is easy to exploit the seabed mineral resources around the islands.