Although China is not the first state to build an airstrip in the South China Sea, it is the first state to employ island-building technologies to transform a contested maritime ...

China says it has conducted a second test flights to Fiery Cross Reef. Two civilian aircrafts were flown from the southern island of Hainan to Fiery Cross Reef. The planes returned to Hainan later ...

Fiery Cross Reef is located more than 1,200km ... Starting in 2014, China began large-scale artificial island construction in the area, and the island's size increased hundreds of times in ...

Back then, the island’s area was smaller than a football ... A rescue ship was sent from Fiery Cross Reef to tow the vessel 1,100 nautical miles (2,037 km) to the mouth of the Pearl River ...