China News Agency, United Nations, June 15. The general election of the United Nations Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf was held at the United Nations Headquarters in New York on the 15th.
Tang Yong, a researcher at the Second Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources of China, was successfully re-elected as a member of the committee for a term from 2023 to 2028.
The Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf is an international institution established in accordance with the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS).
The commission, composed of 21 independent experts, considers submissions by coastal States on the outer limits of their continental shelf beyond 200 nautical miles.
Since the establishment of the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf, Chinese experts have been serving as members.
Tang Yong was elected to the Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf for the first time in 2019.
Before him, Lu Wenzheng, a researcher at the Second Institute of Oceanography of the Ministry of Natural Resources, served as a member of the committee for 21 years.
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