Hainan Li-Miao Autonomous Prefecture was created in 1952 ( abolished in 1988 ).

She was the fourth of six children of Charlie Soong, a wealthy businessman and former Methodist missionary from Hainan, and his wife Ni Kwei-tseng.

* 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.

( 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 ).

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 ).

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 ).

During the Three Kingdoms Period, Hainan was the Zhuya Commandery ( 珠崖郡 ) under the control of Eastern Wu.

Hainan was historically part of Guangdong and Guangxi Provinces and as such was the Ch ' iung-yai or Qiongya Circuit ( 瓊崖道 ) under the 1912 establishment of the Republic of China.

In 1921, it was planned to become a Special Administrative Region ( 瓊崖特別行政區 ); in 1944, it became Hainan Special Administrative Region with 16 counties containing the South China Sea Islands.

During the 1920s and 30s, Hainan was a hotbed of Communist activity, especially after a bloody crackdown in Shanghai, the Republic of China in 1927 drove many Communists into hiding.

During the mid-1980s, when Hainan Island was still part of the Guangdong Province, a fourteen-month episode of marketing zeal by Hainan Special District Administrator Lei Yu put Hainan's pursuit of provincial status under a cloud.

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.

In May 1950, after the capture of Hainan island by Chinese Communist forces, U. S. President Harry S. Truman began covertly authorizing direct financial assistance to the French, and on June 27, 1950, after the outbreak of the Korean War, announced publicly that the U. S. was doing so.

The last position occupied by Lin's forces was the island of Hainan.

However, Su was banished a second time ( 1094 – 1100 ) to Huizhou ( now in Guangdong province ) and Hainan island.

In 1098 the Dongpo Academy in Hainan was built on the site of the residence that he lived in whilst in exile.

In the period before his final victories over the rebel forces, he was also confronted with a wide variety of threats ; for example, the port of Canton was pillaged in 758 by sea-borne Arab and Persian forces, probably pirates based on Hainan.

His maternal grandfather, Ha Su-chiang ( also known as Hassan ), was a Utsul Muslim who came from Sanya in Hainan.

Charlie Soong was born as Han Jiaozhun ( 韓教準 ) in the western suburbs of Wenchang City, Hainan, China as the third son of Han Hongyi ( 韓鴻翼 Hán ​ Hóngyì ​) sometime between 1863 and 1866.

The 108-metre-high Guanyin Statue of Hainan was enshrined on 24 April 2005 with the participation of 108 eminent monks from various Buddhist groups in Hong Kong, Macao and Mainland China, and tens of thousands of pilgrims.

The Communists and the Li natives fought a vigorous guerrilla campaign against the Japanese occupation of Hainan ( 1939 – 45 ), but in retaliation over one third of the male population were killed by the Japanese.

* Hainan black crested gibbon is one of the world's most endangered primates.

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

Minnan is one of the sub-languages of the Chinese language and is mainly spoken in southern Fujian, Taiwan, Hainan and parts of Guangdong, with the main standard dialects being Hokkien, Teochew and Hainanese.

The Utsuls () or () are a tiny ethnic group which lives on the island of Hainan, China, and are considered one of the People's Republic of China's undistinguished ethnic groups.

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.

Sanya () is the second southernmost Chinese city ( after Sansha City ) and one of the three prefecture-level cities in Hainan Province.

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.

In Singapore, one can find some of these signature dishes served at the various eateries located along Purvis Street-which is often referred to as " Singapore's Hainan Street ".

Bai's forces were the last ones to leave the mainland for Hainan Island and eventually to Taiwan.

They speak their own Hlai language, a member of the Tai – Kadai language family, but most can understand or speak Hainanese and Mandarin — and it is also common for Li people to learn and speak Cantonese because many Li in Hainan relocate to Cantonese-speaking areas in southern mainland China near Hainan such as Guangzhou and Hong Kong.

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.

Around January and February, in coastal areas, particularly in the northern part of the island, Hainan experiences severe fog.

Glossika divides the Min languages into eight: Northern Min ( Min Bei in Nanping prefecture in Fujian, but Jian ' ou dialect is the standard dialect of Min Bei ), Shaojiang ( eastern Nanping and surrounding areas ; in broader classifications treated as a dialect of Min Bei ), Eastern Min ( Min Dong in Fuzhou and Ningde prefectures ), Central Min ( Min Zhong in Sanming prefecture ), Puxian Min in Putian prefecture, Southern Min ( Min Nan in Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xiamen ( Amoy ) prefectures and on Taiwan ( Hokkien dialect ), and in eastern Guangdong province ( Teochew dialect ); Hokkien and Teochew are sometimes considered separate languages ), Leizhou ( on the Leizhou Peninsula in Guangdong ), and Hainanese ( on Hainan Island ; in broader classifications Leizhou and Hainanese are treated as a Qiongwen language or as dialects of Min Nan ).

Mazu is widely worshipped in the south-eastern coastal areas of China and neighbouring areas in Southeast Asia, especially Zhejiang, Fujian, Taiwan, Guangdong and Hainan, as well as Vietnam, all of which have strong seafaring traditions, as well as migrant communities elsewhere with sizeable populations from these areas.

In East Asia, the influence of the Siberian anticyclone depresses winter temperatures, pushing the southern boundary of this regime to around China's Hainan Island, at latitude 20 ° N. In Europe and Middle East some small areas directly on or near inland of the Mediterranean, Black and Caspian Sea coastlines fall in this climate, provided they have higher summer precipitation.

Evidence of the migrations are recorded in the legends of a possibly mythic king, Khun Borom, whose descendants settled as far away as Assam, central China, Hainan Island, and Southeast Asia, fleeing from population pressures, Han Chinese expansion, Mongol wars, as well as searching suitable riparian areas for wet-rice cultivation.

And as well: Madagascar, the Pattani region of Thailand, and the Chamic areas of Vietnam, Cambodia and Hainan Island.

Chinese government reports show that the sex ratio for newborns is 118: 100 ( boys: girls ), higher in rural areas such as Guangdong and Hainan ( 130: 100 ) compared to the average of 104: 100 in developed countries.

Antiaris toxicaria is native to Australia, Cameroon, China ( the warmer southern and eastern areas including Hainan Island ), Democratic Republic of Congo, Fiji, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Nigeria, Philippines, Sierra Leone, Sudan, Thailand, Tonga, Uganda and Vietnam.

* 2001 – The detained crew of a United States EP-3E aircraft that landed in Hainan, China after a collision with a J-8 fighter is released.

* Be language or Ong Be, a language of northern Hainan province, China

Many other regions with unique dishes and styles are represented in China, including Hakka, Macau, Hainan, Taiwan, and Northeast cuisines.

*** Ma ' anshan Candera ( 马鞍山 ), Shishan Town ( 石山镇 ), Xiuying, Hainan, China

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

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.

In addition to Ediacaran biota, later two other types of biota were discovered in China ( the so-called Doushantuo formation and Hainan formation ).

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 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 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.

China is constructing a major underground nuclear submarine base near Sanya, Hainan.

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

The diversity of the Tai – Kadai languages in southeastern China, especially in Guizhou and Hainan, suggests that this is close to their homeland.

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.

In Hainan and Hunan Province, China, where Xiangtan is a center of use and processing, a wide range of old and young people consume areca nut daily.

Areca nuts as sold in Hainan, China

After four more years, 1950 saw the cessation of major military hostilities — with the newly founded People's Republic of China controlling mainland China ( including Hainan ), and the Republic of China's jurisdiction being restricted to Taiwan, Penghu, Quemoy, Matsu and several outlying islands.