After 0:00 AM on July 7, 1953, the People's Liberation Army 31st Army 92nd Division landed on Shi Islet to start an attack on ROC troops, leading to 3 killed and 4 captured. At around 4 PM on August 19, 2016, a 23 year old Chinese man landed on Shi Islet after rowing from
Xiamen Island (Amoy) on a piece of polystyrene and was immediately arrested by the Shi Islet defense forces. On July 23, 2019, , the new leader of the ROC Army
Kinmen Defense Command, visited the soldiers on Shi Islet and
Menghu Islet.
Shiyu slaughter In January 1985, a Chinese
sampan carrying eight fisherman floated onshore the islet after its engine broke down and identified themself as civilians in emergency communication. Kinmen Defense Command ordered the stationed platoon to kill them regardless. Six died under crossfire; two escaped to a rock cave and kneeled down begging for mercy, then were pushed off the rock cliff to fall to death under the KDC's second urgent order. The case was hidden for 37 years until being exposed by
another massacre's re-investigation in 2022. ==Geography==