Pingtan Island Pingtan Island Pingtan Island () also called Haitan Island (海坛岛, "Hǎitán dǎo") is off the east coast of Fujian province, China. It is the largest island in Fujian and the fifth largest island in China. Pingtan, as a result of its 2010-built bridge connecting it to the mainland, makes it lie at the "de facto" narrowest gap between the island of Taiwan and the Chinese mainland. It has long been a standard point of distinction between the East China Sea and South China Sea. Administratively, the island has become part of Pingtan County, which includes the smaller surrounding islands and
Mainland China area occupied by PRC as "mainland", since it is officially considered still part of the ROC territory but just enemy occupied. In contrast, the pro-Taiwan independence Democratic Progressive Party (DPP) prefer to use the term "China" instead, referring to the PRC, to imply that Taiwan (ROC) is separate from China. Related to this naming and broader national identity issue, the DPP would also like to amend the ROC constitution to limit its scope and territorial description to the Free area of the Republic of China only and rectify the ROC country name to "Republic of Taiwan" instead, thereby eliminating the