1、Editorial CommitteeChief Editors:Xu MinqiangShan HongjunAssociate Editors:Zeng QingchengHu MingjiuExecutive Editors:Jia PengKuang HaiboWritingGroupMembers:Ma QianliLi HaijiangZhao YuzheSui CongYang LingGuo HongyueLuan JianlinLi XiaodongFeng LinMeng BinYu FangpingLuo JiaqiJia BoxiangSupportingOrganiz
2、ations:Dalian Maritime University National Institute ofMarine Governance and DevelopmentMinistry of Education Engineering ResearchCenter for Integrated Transportation IntelligentTechnology and EquipmentInstitute for Dalian Northeast Asia InternationalShipping CenterMinistry of Education Philosophy a
3、nd SocialSciences Innovation Team for National MarineGovernance and DevelopmentIPrefaceThe South China Sea is an important marginal sea of China,covering an area ofapproximately 3.5 million square kilometers.Within its waters are distributed theDongsha,Xisha,Zhongsha and Nansha Islands.The South Chi
4、na Sea shipping routesare mainly southwest-northeast oriented,divided into eastern,central and westernroutes,connecting the coast of China,Southeast Asia and the Pacific and IndianOceans,with intensive shipping.The navigation management system is wellestablished,featuring a vessel traffic management
5、 system,an automatic identificationsystem and pilotage services.The South China Sea Rescue Bureau of the Ministry ofTransport of the Peoples Republic of China provides a three-in-one emergencysupport system of air,surface and underwater to ensure the safety and smoothness ofnavigation.Based on the a
6、ctual demand for navigation dynamic monitoring in the SouthChina Sea,this study,relying on big data from ship AIS and other monitoringtechnologies,systematically sorted out the main port ship traffic,ship navigationdynamics and major cargo transportation volumes in the South China Sea waters,anddeep