The calving grounds are unknown but may be around Hainan Island, this being the southwestern end of the known range.

The commercial tree is most heavily cultivated in the rainforests of Asia, notably in Java ( hence its nicknames ), Philippines, Malaysia, Hainan Island in China as well as in South America.

The Li ( 黎 ; pinyin: Lí ) or Hlai are a minority ethnic group, the vast majority of whom live off the southern coast of mainland China on Hainan Island, where they are the largest minority ethnic group.

Parts of China's northernmost province Heilongjiang has a subarctic climate ; its southernmost part, Hainan Island ( an island away from mainland China ), has a tropical climate.

The archipelago is approximately equidistant from the coastlines of Vietnam and China, 180 nautical miles southeast of Hainan Island, and about one-third of the way from central Vietnam to the northern Philippines.

The southern cape of Hainan Island in China just overlaps the southern point of Peru.

" During the Landing Operation on Hainan Island, the communists used wooden junks fitted with mountain guns as both transport and warships against the Republic of China Navy.

Recent PLAN incidents include the 2001 Hainan Island incident, a major submarine accident in 2003, and naval incidents involving the U. S. MSC-operated ocean surveillance ships and during 2009.

Wild trees still grow in parts of southern China and on Hainan Island.

Wild trees still grow in rainforest in Guangdong province and on Hainan Island.

The largest, Zhoushan Island, is Mainland China's third largest island, after Hainan and Chongming.

Patpong gets its name from the family that owns much of the area's property, the Patpongpanich ( or Patpongpanit ), immigrants from Hainan Island, China, who purchased the area in 1946.

( Ne Win was one of the Thirty Comrades who secretly went to undergo military training in Japanese-occupied Hainan Island in the early 1940s for the purpose of fighting for independence from the British ).

During military training on the then Japanese-occupied Hainan Island Shu Maung chose a nom de guerre, Bo Ne Win ( Commander Radiant Sun ).

This jammer has been dubbed the Chinese Fire Dragon Jammer and purportedly comes from Hainan Island which is located in the Gulf of Tonkin and is a part of the People's Republic of China.

The name " Hainan " also refers to Hainan Island ( 海南岛, Hǎinán Dǎo ), the main island of the province.

For centuries Hainan Island was part of Guangdong Province, but in 1988 this resource-rich tropical island became part of the newly created Hainan Province ( 海南省, Hǎinán Shěng ).

Although it comprises some two hundred islands scattered among three archipelagos off the southern coast, ( 97 %) of its land mass is Hainan Island, from which the province takes its name.

Haikou on the northern coast of Hainan Island is the capital whilst Sanya is a well-known tourist destination on the south coast.

Hainan Island was once called the Pearl Cliffs ( 珠崖 Zhūyá ), Fine Jade Cliffs ( 琼崖 / 瓊崖 Qióngyá ), and the Fine Jade Land ( 瓊州 Qióngzhōu ).

Around that time, Han people together with military personnel and officials began to migrate to Hainan Island from mainland China.

Most of them arrived in Hainan Island from the southern provinces of Guangdong, Fujian and Guangxi.

At the time of the Song Dynasty ( 980-1279 ), Hainan became part of Guangxi Province, and for the first time large numbers of Han Chinese arrived, settling mostly in the north.

Dr. Stanley said of Australian prisoners of war on Ambon: " They suffered an ordeal and a death rate second only to the horrors of Sandakan, first on Ambon and then after many were sent to the island of Hainan late in 1942.

The group's first property in Mainland China, Mandarin Oriental, Sanya is located in Hainan, China's southernmost island province.

This spy plane incident between the United States and China, or Hainan Island incident, was one of the first major international challenges that the new administration had to face.

:... suffered an ordeal and a death rate second only to the horrors of Sandakan, first on Ambon and then after many were sent to the island of Hainan late in 1942.

Aung San and the first Thirty Comrades were trained on Hainan Island.

He first took over from Meng Xuenong when SARS struck Beijing in spring 2003, at which time he was the Party Secretary in Hainan, and was confirmed as mayor in early 2004.

Tropical Storm Washi made its first landfall near Xinglong, Hainan.

Numerous historical poems have also been written about the mountain, the most famous of all by the Hainan writer, Qiujun.

The Paracel Islands, also called Xisha Islands () in Chinese and Hoàng Sa Islands ( Quần đảo Hoàng Sa ) in Vietnamese, is a group of islands whose ownership is disputed by China, Vietnam and Taiwan, however is currently under the administration of Hainan Province within the People's Republic of China.

The Soong Sisters ( Traditional Chinese: 宋家姐妹, pinyin: Sòngjiā Jiěmèi, or 宋氏三姐妹 ) were three Hainan Chinese women who were, along with their husbands, amongst China's most significant political figures of the early 20th century.

* Ong Be ( Hainan ; Lin ' gao ( 临高 ) in Chinese )

* Hlai ( Hainan ; Li ( 黎 ) in Chinese )

* 1098: the Dongpo Academy of Hainan, China is built in honor of the Song Dynasty Chinese official and poet Su Shi, who was exiled there for criticizing reforms of the New Policies Group.

Chinatowns in Asia are widespread with a large concentration of overseas Chinese in East Asia and Southeast Asia and ethnic Chinese whose ancestors came from southern China – particularly the provinces of Guangdong, Fujian, and Hainan – and settled in countries such as Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, the Philippines, Thailand, and Vietnam centuries ago — starting as early as the Tang Dynasty, but mostly notably in the 17th through the 19th centuries ( during the reign of the Qing Dynasty ), and well into the 20th century.

The vast majority of Austronesian languages are non-tonal, but a small number, for example Ma ' ya ( which also has lexical stress ) have developed tone, and also the Tsat language has developed tone probably as a result of areal linguistic effects and contact with Chinese, Hlai / Li, and the other tonal languages of Hainan.

The Chinese term 內地, meaning the inland but still translated mainland in English, is commonly applied by SAR governments to represent non-SAR areas of PRC, including Hainan and coastal regions of mainland China, such as " Constitutional and Mainland Affairs " ( 政制及內地事務局 ) and Immigration Departments.

Chinese students in Haikou City, Hainan Province

A small group fled northward to the Chinese island of Hainan where they are known today as the Utsuls.

On 17 June 2008, the Civil Aviation Administration of China announced that the 18 return flights available to Chinese airlines will be apportioned such that Air China and Hainan Airlines will fly to Taiwan from Beijing with four return flights and two return flights respectively ; China Eastern Airlines and Shanghai Airlines will fly from Shanghai to Taiwan with four return flights and two return flights respectively ; China Southern Airlines fly depart for Taiwan from Guangzhou for four return flights per week, and Xiamen Airlines will connect Xiamen with Taiwan with two weekly return flights.

Hainan Province is the largest Special Economic Zone laid out by Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping in the late 1980s.

In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, large numbers of Han Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong began migrating to Hainan, pushing the Li into the highlands in the southern half of the island.

In 1906, the Chinese Republican leader Sun Yat-sen proposed that Hainan should become a separate province although this did not happen until 1988.

From March to May 1950, the Landing Operation on Hainan Island captured the island for the Chinese communists.

Hence, while many observers of the Chinese civil war thought that the fall of Hainan Island to the Communists would be followed shortly by the fall of Taiwan Island, the lack of any communist guerrilla force on Taiwan Island and its sheer distance from the mainland made this impossible, as did the arrival of the US 7th fleet in the Taiwan Strait after the outbreak of the Korean War in June.

Mǐn or Miin (; BUC: ) is the name of a broad group of Chinese languages spoken by 60 million people in the southeastern Chinese province of Fujian as well as by migrants from this province in Guangdong ( around Chaozhou-Swatou, or Chaoshan area, and the Leizhou peninsula ), Hainan, three counties in southern Zhejiang, and Zhoushan archipelago off Ningbo, and some towns in Liyang and Jiangyin city in Jiangsu province, and Taiwan.

The Southern Min languages, or Min Nan (), are a family of Chinese languages spoken in Taiwan and in parts of Mainland China such as southern Fujian, eastern Guangdong, Hainan, and southern Zhejiang.

An ethnic Chinese, Chinese name: 凌绪光 ( Ling Xu Guang ), who hails from Luang Prabang with ancestry from Hainan, he was a protégé of Kaysone Phomvihane.