Welcome to Hainan, a charming island full of vitality and opportunity!
Hainan, a tropical island at the southernmost of China, has a land area of 35,400 square kilometers, a sea area of about 2 million square kilometers, and a population of about 10 million. It is China's second largest island after Taiwan.
Hainan has a long history. According to archaeological findings, as early as 10,000 years ago, there were ancient humans - "Sanya Man" have been living here. In 214 BC, Emperor Qin Shihuang set up Xiang County in Hainan and relocated hundreds of thousands of people from the mainland.
Hainan enjoys a favorable geographical location, with Qiongzhou Strait facing Guangdong Province in the north, Beibu Gulf in the west opposite Vietnam, and the Philippines, Brunei and Malaysia in the southeast and south. Hainan is a regional center connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia, and is a maritime gateway between the Indian Ocean and the Pacific Ocean.
On April 13, 1988, the Chinese central government announced the establishment of Hainan Province and the establishment of a special economic zone. Its provincial capital is the beautiful Haikou, known as the "Coconut City".
On April 13, 2018, Mr. Xi Jinping, General Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and President of the People's Republic of China announced that the central government supports Hainan island in building a pilot free trade zone, and supports Hainan in gradually exploring and steadily advancing the construction of a free trade port.
As China's largest special economic zone, largest free trade pilot zone and only free trade port with Chinese characteristics，Hainan is committed to building into a comprehensive deepening reform and opening up pilot zone, a national ecological civilization pilot zone, an international tourism consumption center, and a major strategic service guarantee zone.
Hainan is the region with the most preferential policies and the highest degree of openness in China. We will implement investment and trade liberalization and facilitation, implement special taxation policies, and create special areas for customs supervision with international competitiveness and influence. Over the past two years, domestic and foreign investors have come one after another to share the dividends of China's reform and opening up. The number of market entities has grown rapidly from 610,000 to 940,000, including 28 Fortune 500 companies. Internationally renowned accounting firms and educational institutions such as PwC, Deloitte, Ernst & Young, KPMG, and Harrow School in the UK have also settled in Hainan.
Hainan has comprehensive transportation systems that link to the world. At present, there are 103 international routes serving 62 major cities overseas. We will continue to develop and encrypt international air routes and container liner routes to strengthen air and maritime interconnections with countries around the world, and further promote cultural and economic exchanges.
Hainan is proud of its excellent ecological environment. The climate is pleasant all year round, with plenty of sunshine, fresh air and pure water. Its annual average temperature is 23-26 degrees Celsius,the annual air quality days account for more than 99.8%, and the forest coverage rate reaches 62.1%.
Hainan is an internationally renowned tourist destination. It is located at 18 degrees north latitude-a globally recognized "golden line of tourism". As China's only tropical island, Hainan's tourism resources are extremely rich-1944 kilometers of coastline, 68 wonderful bays, 81 mountains above 1,000 kilometers, more than 280,000 acres of national forest parks, more than 70 Natural hot spring.
Blue sky, white clouds, blue sea, beaches, sunlight, rain forests, mountains and rivers, delicious food ... This is just a small aspect of Hainan. If you want a more comprehensive and in-depth understanding of the unique charm of Hainan, unless you come to feel and experience it yourself!