Implementation of the opening-up arrangements in the overall plan for the construction of the Hainan FTP released on June 1 last year has made steady and solid progress and the project is moving on a track of vigorous high-quality development.
The Shenyang-Haikou Expressway has promoted the development of port businesses, marine industries and tourism, and also boosted the country's foreign trade as the ports along it serve as gateways to countries on the 21st Century Maritime Silk Road.
The first China International Consumer Products Expo, held last month in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, impressed Chinese visitors and corporate buyers with a display of more than 2,600 boutique brands from home and abroad.
This lighthearted interlude for a ballet, The Red Detachment of Women, is played as background music at almost all grand occasions in Hainan province.
French captain Godfrey Zwygart is now more sentimentally attached to Sanya, where he is the first foreigner to receive a permanent residence card after spending 10 years in the tropical coastal city.
The spread of COVID-19 has prevented marine scientist, Chen Hong, from planting coral in faraway locations since last year, but he has made progress in building up coral germ plasm banks in coastal locations, and in his spacious lab in Sanya, at the southern tip of Hainan Island.
Through "Hainan-style perseverance", Tao Fengjiao and her band of co-workers, who come from Changjiang in the western part of the island province, have accomplished a striking achievement, planting 5.88 million casuarina trees on 2,250 hectares of barren coastal areas across the tropical island over the past 29 years.
