Abstract Taiwan is surrounded by an ocean with abundant marine resources. It is a typical island-nation with an excellent geological location. Taiwan¡¦s trade, traffic, and fishing industries rely heavily on the ocean their main natural mediation channel. Thus, the marine policy has always been the government¡¦s main administrative focus. Apart from continuing to protect marine ecological resources and promote the policy of marine environment sustainability, the government of Taiwan also actively promotes marine-related projects related to technological research and development, reuse of resources, and industrial development. Since 2008 and after four signed agreements of cross-strait marine transport, the cross-strait bilateral relation has moved toward a stable development, and the policy of cross-strait exchange has been loosened. This has enabled the maritime transport between Mainland China and Taiwan to increase enormously into large-scale bilateral marine transport. The geological position of the Taiwan Strait- long with the safety of maritime navigation in the area- is now far more important as the number of marine transport, fishing vessels, and shipwrecks has increased rapidly. These have all significantly highlighted the issue of marine search and rescue. Marine search and rescue is a humanitarian act. It is an obligatory duty of those involved in marine search and rescue operations to rescue those facing danger during maritime activities. Therefore, under the principle of highly valuing issues related to both bilateral parties across the Taiwan Strait, this thesis analyzes the procedures and practices of mutual marine search and rescue based on cross-strait marine search and rescue mechanisms. This thesis proposes, a systematic model of cooperation with a precondition of not endangering bilateral sovereignty. The example of the Kinmen and Xiamen areas as the shortest distance between Mainland China and Taiwan is the focus of analysis. The discussion emphasizes how to establish the fastest and most efficient joint search and rescue mechanisms within the shortest distance so that the model can be adopted in other areas of the Taiwan Strait and even beyond to create a safer global marine environment. Key words: marine search and rescue, marine salvage, regional cooperation, joint search and rescue mechanisms, Kinmen, Xiamen