China on Tuesday released a plan to build its southern province Hainan into a pilot free trade zone after the central government announced in April it would support Hainan in establishing a free trade zone and would gradually build it into a free trade port.
Hainan is making full use of its regional advantages by holding large-scale international sports events. Tour of Hainan, Round Hainan Regatta, and Hainan Open are now the three big events in the province that are driving industrial development.
An "AI melon store" equipped with high-tech feeling at the Haikou Jinpan Night Market attracted countless people on Oct 10. Customers are recommended to use a mini program in Alipay that is similar to face identification by scanning muskmelons to recognize their sweetness level.
With three eagles and five birdies, playing a zero-bogey 10-under 62, Scotland's golfer Grant Forrest on Thursday broke the record of the least stroke in 2018 Hainan Open European Challenge Tour: 65 scores of all 18 holes.
The first case of coronary rapamycin-eluting stents being implanted on the Chinese mainland, known as COMBO heart stents, was successfully performed at the Boao Super Hospital in Hainan province on Oct 11 by Ge Junbo, an academician belonging to the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Miss World 2018, the 68th edition of the international beauty pageant, is scheduled to be held in the popular beach city of Sanya in Southern China's island province of Hainan on Dec 8.
Hainan province organized 24 leading enterprises to participate in the 15th China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair (CISMEF), which opened in Guangzhou, Guangdong province, on Oct 10.
