Concrete tiles being installed on a roof top in Haikou City, Hainan, China.

Haikou, the capital of the province as seen looking south from Evergreen Park ( Haikou ) | Evergreen Park, a large park located on the north shore of the city

* Haidian Island, on the north coast, is part of Haikou City

On 9 January 2012 it was announced, that the World Open will be held in the next five years in Haikou on the Hainan Island.

Since 2005, the main air transportation to and from the island involves chartered flights on Xian Y-7 60-seat propeller aircraft which link to Haikou Meilan International Airport on Hainan proper.

Tiger Airways became the first Singaporean low-cost carrier to receive operating permits from the Chinese aviation authorities to fly to the southern Chinese cities of Haikou, Guangzhou and Shenzhen in an announcement on 21 February 2006.

Ticket sales to these destinations commenced 24 February 2006, with the first flight to Shenzhen taking place on 15 April, to Haikou from 26 April and to Guangzhou from 27 April 2006.

Over the next few years, Emperor Xuānzong purged those officials he considered sympathetic to Li Deyu, and further pursued charges against Li Deyu based on the execution of the minor official Wu Xiang ( 吳湘 ) on charges that should not have warranted death, which occurred because Li Deyu was resentful of Wu Xiang's uncle Wu Wuling ( 吳武陵 ); Li Deyu was repeatedly demoted and sent farther and farther away from Chang ' an, eventually dying in exile around the new year 850 in Yai Prefecture ( 崖州, in modern Haikou, Hainan ).

Modern bridge abutments on Haikou Century Bridge

When the World Cup resumes in 2011, the tournament will move to another property owned by the Mission Hills company, Mission Hills Haikou, located on Hainan Island.

On 26 December 2008, the PLAN dispatched a task group consisting of the guided missile destroyer Haikou ( flagship ), the guided missile destroyer Wuhan, and the supply ship Weishanhu to the Gulf of Aden to participating in anti-piracy operations off the coast of Somalia.

* Haikou Bay, Hainan Province, China, where the west side of Haidian Island is being extended, and off the coast of Haikou City, where new land for a marina is being created

Grafitti as advertising in Haikou, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China.

Two varieties of ginger as sold in Haikou, Hainan, China

Chinese students in Haikou City, Hainan Province

Video of pineapple being prepared by a roadside vendor in Haikou City, Hainan, China.

Fruit wholesalers in Haikou, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

Locally-made crockery jars of baijiu in a liquor store in Haikou, Hainan, China, with signs indicating alcoholic content and price per Catty | jin ( 500 grams )

Shown here is a traffic jam at 17: 30, downtown Haikou City, Hainan Province.

* Hainan Airlines, an airline based in Haikou, Hainan, China

A metal wheel barrow in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

File: Baskets in Haikou 03. jpg | Baskets in Haikou City, Hainan Province, China.

Directly to the right are flat baskets used for selling shrimp and small fish in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

Flyers pasted to a wall in Haikou, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

Cargo being unloaded from a ship using a cargo net at Haikou New Port, Haikou City, Hainan, China

Bean sprouts in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

Frog meat, less than one minute old, in a market in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

A roadside tailor in Haikou City, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China

The capital city of Haikou, although highly populated relative to many other international cities, is geographically quite small, with almost no urban sprawl.

This machine is owned by a roadside shoe repairman in Haikou, Hainan Province, China.

The capital city of Taiwan is Tiger's sixth destination in Greater China, after Guangzhou, Haikou, Hong Kong, Macau and Shenzhen.

Hainan Airlines Company Limited ( HNA ) () () is an airline headquartered in Haikou, People's Republic of China.

Its main base is Haikou Meilan International Airport,

It is 63 km southeast of the capital, Haikou.

Qiongshan District ( Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Kiungshan ; ; also Wade-Giles: Ch ' iungshan ), formerly Qiongzhou ( Chinese Postal Map Romanisation: Kiungchow ; ), is one of the four county-level districts which make up the city of Haikou, the capital of Hainan province of the People's Republic of China.

The major ports, including river ports accessible by ocean-going ships, are Beihai, Dalian, Dandong, Fuzhou, Guangzhou, Haikou, Hankou, Huangpu, Jiujiang, Lianyungang, Nanjing, Nantong, Ningbo, Qingdao, Qinhuangdao, Rizhao, Sanya, Shanghai, Shantou, Shenzhen, Tianjin, Weihai, Wenzhou, Xiamen, Xingang, Yangzhou, Yantai, and Zhanjiang.

* Hong Kong Express – Beijing, Shanghai-Pudong, Shanghai-Hongqiao, Guilin, Guiyang, Haikou, Hanoi, Hangzhou, Nanning, Sanya.

Reports suggest two destroyers ( Type 052C 171 Haikou and Type 052B 169 Wuhan ) and a supply ship are the ones being used.

Tourists to the island are required to obtain approval from the Chinese authorities in Haikou before departure.

An ordinary army surplus store in Haikou, Hainan Province, People's Republic of China | China.

The Longjiang Bridge near the mouth of the Long River ( Fujian ) | eponymous river, in Haikou, Fuqing | Haikou Town.

The style and products offered in this Haikou City store are typical of hundreds of thousands of hardware stores throughout the country.

The airline has since indicated that the routes were highly popular, with increased flights to Haikou and Guangzhou less than three months since their launch.