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Assistant Foreign Minister Le Yucheng said that the Japanese government on the Diaoyu Islands is "terra nullius" is nonsense.A large number of documents and historical materials show that the Diaoyu islands are Chinese people first discovered, named and utilization. 15 centuries ago, some businessmen of the southeast coast of China, the fishermen that the Diaoyu Islands and other as a maritime flag has always been engaged in production activities in these islands and their adjacent waters. As early as in the early Ming Dynasty, the Diaoyu Islands and other islands had been included in China's coastal defense under the jurisdiction. That Japan in the premodern to historical explicitly recognized. Diaoyu Islands since ancient times belongs to China is not an empty phrase, is not found to be unsubstantiated, but the evidence is ironclad.

The Granville, Beijing law firms the main Ren Zhangwei said illegal claims of the Diaoyu Islands, Japan mainly relies on its "actual control", both in history or in law, are untenable.

According to the principles of international law, a country of sovereignty over a piece of land, four conditions must be met: first discovered the earliest named, the earliest development and operation of administrative jurisdiction, the oldest continuously. China is the only country to meet the above conditions the Diaoyu Islands.