The tourism and culture authorities in counties and cities across Hainan will offer various benefits to citizens and tourists to mark the upcoming China Tourism Day, which falls on May 19 each year.
A meeting was held at Hainan University (HNU) on May 14, with attendees discussing how best to support the development of Hainan into an international center for education innovation.
In May, the temperature is already past 30 degrees Celsius in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province. It used to be the low season for tourism, but the situation has changed.
By introducing 28 new measures recently to propel the high-quality growth of the Hainan Free Trade Port, especially by facilitating faster goods and services trade, the government has not only responded to the demand of the market players but also aims to achieve the higher-level and phased development goals by 2025.
The spring yield of a super hybrid rice in a demonstration field, grown by a team of Yuan Longping, known as the father of hybrid rice, has reached 1,005 kilogram per 1/15 hectare (or mu) at the Sanya National Paddy Park in southern Hainan island — 100 kg more than the goal, according to field-yield measurement experts.
The Chinese mainland is home to a population of 1.41 billion, with an average annual growth rate of 0.53 percent over the past decade, down from the 0.57 percent recorded from 2000 to 2010, according to a news conference on the outcome of the seventh national population census held by the State Council Information Office on May 11.
The Chinese economy has entered a stage of high-quality development, and the southern province of Hainan is spearheading the country's efforts to establish its new development paradigm.
