{"id":78838,"date":"2025-12-20T13:21:38","date_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:51:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=78838"},"modified":"2025-12-20T13:23:27","modified_gmt":"2025-12-20T07:53:27","slug":"hainan-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/hainan-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Hainan Island"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Hainan Island Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">China recently split off Hainan Island, with an economy comparable to a mid-ranked country, from the mainland for customs processing, part of a bid to join a major trans-Pacific trade deal and establish a new Hong Kong-style commercial hub.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Hainan Island<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is a tropical island at the <\/span><b>southernmost of China.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is situated in the <\/span><b>northeastern part of the Beibu Gulf, across the Qiongzhou Strait from mainland China.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It\u2019s known as the \u201c<\/span><b>Hawaii of China,\u201d.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a land area of \u200b\u200b35,400 sq.km. It is the <\/span><b>largest island administered by the People&#8217;s Republic of China.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has a population of about 10 million.\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Its <\/span><b>provincial capital<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> is <\/span><b>Haikou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, known as the &#8220;<\/span><b>Coconut City&#8221;.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It was geologically connected with the southern Chinese mainland until a rift through the Hainan Strait opened sometime during the Miocene and Pliocene epochs (about 23 to 2.6 million years ago).\u00a0<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The island is <\/span><b>approximately oval in shape<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and measures about 260 km from east to west and 210 km from north to south at its widest point.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hainan is a <\/span><b>regional center connecting Northeast Asia and Southeast Asia<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and is a <\/span><b>maritime gateway between the Indian Ocean and the <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/pacific-ocean\/\" target=\"_blank\">Pacific Ocean<\/a>.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\" aria-level=\"1\">It\u2019s also <b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">China\u2019s largest free-trade port <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\">host of the Boao Forum<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, an annual meeting of political and business leaders<\/span><b style=\"font-size: inherit;\"> dubbed \u201cAsia\u2019s Davos.\u201d<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source: <\/b><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbctv18.com\/world\/china-launches-113-billion-free-trade-experiment-on-hainan-island-ws-l-19795041.htm\/amp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">CNBC<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hainan Island is a tropical island at the southernmost of China. 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