Hainan started to implement and promote its e-ticket system for regular-speed train rides on June 20 in an effort to streamline its boarding procedures and improve its services.
To mark the International Day against Drug Abuse and Illicit Trafficking on June 26, a group of anti-narcotics police officers from Hainan made a brilliant parody of Mandopop superstar Jay Chou's new single Mojito, and has taken China's social media by storm.
In his famous poem, Locksley Hall, Alfred Lord Tennyson included the memorable line: "Better fifty years of Europe than a cycle of Cathay." Published in 1842, at the height of British economic innovation and dominance, he meant that Europe was changing more in a short period than China did over dynasties. (Cathay is an old name for China.)
Check out the stunning aerial scenery captured at the Xinhai Port of Haikou in Hainan province. The port's second phase project is currently under construction and is set to feature eight ro-ro berths, with the capacity to handle 1 million vehicles and 6 million passengers a year.
In 2018, an institute of marine ecology under Hainan Academy of Ocean and Fisheries Sciences in south China's Hainan Province was given a novel task – planting seagrasses on the ocean floor.
Hainan may seek innovative breakthroughs in economic and social governance to build a better pilot free trade port, industry experts said.
On June 1, 2020, the Chinese authorities issued a master plan for the construction of the Hainan free trade port. It contains a number of measures aimed at further opening-up this tropical island province to international trade and investment, taking into account Hainan's strategic positioning in the South China Sea at the crossroads of international maritime routes.
