中业岛自古以来就是我国的固有领土。在上世纪70年代,菲律宾武力夺取中业岛,并在之后的40多年里不断巩固所谓的有效控制,试图通过曲解和滥用国际法上的有效控制规则达到窃取中业岛主权的目的。然而,中业岛的主权归属不会因为菲律宾的长期占领而改变。这是因为筛选与明确关键日期是有效控制规则的核心问题,而中国与菲律宾之间关于中业岛主权争端的关键日期应当是1956年。换言之,中业岛的主权状态在1956年已经被凝固,即属于中国,并且不会因为菲律宾的后续行为而改变。此外,从实践中影响有效控制规则适用与执行的其他因素来看,中国对中业岛的主权都牢不可破。
ZhongYe Island belongs to China from ancient times. The Philippines robbed ZhongYe Island with military measures in 1970s and have been consolidating so- called effective control of in last more than 40 years, which means to misinterpret and abuse the effective control in international law and to steal the sovereignty of ZhongYe Island. Howev for the occupation of the effective control and the is frozen that the sovere changed for other factors the actions in practice er, the sovereignty of ZhongYe Island will not be changed Philippines because the choice of critical date is the core of critical date for ZhongYe Island is 1956. In other words, it ignty of ZhongYe Island belongs to China and will not be of the Philippines afterwards. Besides, from the view of which may have influence on effective control, it is also confirmed that the sovereignty of ZhongYe Island belongs to China