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Hainan is an island province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of the eponymous Hainan Island and various smaller islands in the South China Sea under the province's administration. It is the southernmost province of China, and the name means "south of the sea", reflecting the island's position south of the Qiongzhou Strait ...
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Yulin Naval Base (Chinese: 楡林海军基地) is the traditional base...
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The Battle of Hainan Island (simplified Chinese: 海南岛战役;...
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The Hainan Island incident occurred on April 1, 2001, when a...
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Hainan first entered written Chinese history in 110 B.C.E., when the Han Dynasty established a military garrison there. Settlement by mainlanders proved slow however, and from early on Chinese considered the island fit only for exiles. During that period the Li people arrived from Guangxiand displaced the island's aboriginal Austronesian-speaking p...
Hainan, separated by the Qiongzhou Strait (瓊州海峽) from the Leizhou Peninsula (雷州半島) of Guangdong, is the largest island administered by the People's Republic of China. The PRC however, regard it as the second largest island, since Taiwanis considered the largest. To the west of Hainan is the Gulf of Tonkin. Wuzhi Mountain, at an elevation of 1,876m,...
Hainan's system of administrative division differs from the other provinces of China. Most of the other provinces are divided entirely into prefecture-level divisions, which are then further divided into county-level divisions. The county-level divisions generally do not come directly under the province. In Hainan however, nearly all county-level d...
Since the 1980s, Hainan province has been a Special Economic Zone of China. Prior to this, the province had a reputation for being a "Wild West" area, largely untouched by industrialization. Even today, there are relatively few factories in the province. In terms of agriculture, the province has developed a small economy, which is comprised mainly ...
In 2000, the ethnic groups of Hainan included the Han Chinese, known as the Hainanese, who currently make up a majority (84 percent of the population). In addition, minority groups include the Li people (14.7 percent of the population), the Miao (Hmong) (0.7 percent) and the Zhuang (0.6 percent). The Li are the largest indigenous group on the islan...
According to statistics from the end of 2000, there were 5 higher education institutions in Hainan, with 18,504 students enrolled and and 1,571 teachers. In addition, there were 88 specialized secondary schools with 44,127 students and 3,145 teachers, and 503 secondary schools with 435,789 students and 1,354 teachers. At the primary school level, t...
The Han Chinese of Hainan speak a variant of the Min Nan Chinese language, known as Hainanese. In addition, the national standard Putonghua is understood and spoken by most people, and Standard Cantonese is understood by many local Hainanese. English is understood by some of the younger generation, but Hainan still largely remains a non-English spe...
Brink, Judy, and Joan P. Mencher. Mixed Blessings Gender and Religious Fundamentalism Cross Culturally. New York: Routledge, 1997. ISBN 9780415911856Brown, Liam D'Arcy. Green Dragon, Sombre Warrior A Journey Round China's Symbolic Frontiers. London: John Murray, 2003. ISBN 9780719560385Cadario, Paul M., Kazuko Ogawa, and Yin-Kann Wen. A Chinese Province As a Reform Experiment The Case of Hainan'. Washington, D.C.: World Bank, 1992. ISBN 9780821321690Fellowes, John R., and Gloria L. P. Siu. 'Report of a Rapid Biodiversity Assessment at Jiaxi Nature Reserve, Western Hainan, China, June 1999. South China forest biodiversity survey report series,...All links retrieved July 25, 2017. 1. Official Provincial Website (in Simplified Chinese) 2. Overview of Hainan 3. People's Daily 4. Hainan travel guide 5. Chinese space program in Hainan
May 3, 2024 · Hainan, sheng (province) in southern China. Its name means “south of the sea.”. The main land territory of the province is coextensive with Hainan Island and a handful of nearby offshore islands located in the South China Sea and separated from the Leizhou Peninsula of southern Guangdong province to the north by the shallow and narrow ...
Hainan is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China. The name "Hainan" also refers to Hainan Island, the main island of the province. The capital of the province is Haikou. Hainan is known for its tropical climate.
Hainanese (Hainan Romanised: Hái-nâm-oe, Hainanese Pinyin: Hhai3 nam2 ue1, simplified Chinese: 海南话; traditional Chinese: 海南話; pinyin: Hǎinánhuà), also known as Qiongwen (simplified Chinese: 琼文; traditional Chinese: 瓊文) or Qiongyu (琼语; 瓊語), is a group of Min Chinese varieties spoken in the far southern Chinese ...
Hainan (海南; Hái-nâm in Hainanese, Hǎinán in Mandarin) is an island province of China, famous for its tropical beaches. It has a thriving tourist industry and is being heavily promoted as "China's Hawaii". Understand. Hainan is China's southernmost province, south of Guangdong province and across the Gulf of Tonkin from Vietnam.
