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| Basics
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Economy
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Official Contact Information
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| Area : 33,920 km2
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Agriculture : bananas, beans, betel
nut, carambola, cashews, cassava, citrus fruit, cocoa, coconut, hemp,
jackfruit, lemon grass, longan, lychee, maize, mango, millet, palm oil,
pineapple, peanuts, pepper, plantains, rice, rubber, shanlanpo rice, sesame,
sisal hemp, sorghum, sugarcane, sweet potatoes, tea, upland rice, taro,
watermelon, wheat, and more than 120 kinds of vegetables.
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Provincial government office address :
59 Haifu Road, Haikou
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| Capital and Largest City : Haikou
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Animal products : aquaculture
products, shellfish, shrimp
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Telephone : (86)(898)6534-2277,
6534-2162
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| English meaning of name : South of
the sea
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Foreign direct investment (2002) :
512 million yuan contracted (actual amount utilized will be less)
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Website (Chinese) :
www.hainan.gov.cn/style1/
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| Major Nationalities (2000) : Han 83%,
Li 16%, Miao 0.8%, Zhuang 0.7%
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GDP (2002) : 60.4 billion yuan
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Website (English) : not available
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| Organization : 2 prefectures; 20
counties; 218 townships
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GDP per capita (2002) : 7523 yuan
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Transportation
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| Population (2002) : 8,030,000
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Industry : agriculture, aquaculture,
beverages, building materials, chemicals, electronics, food processing,
machinery, metallurgy, natural gas, textiles, tourism
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Airports : Haikou Meilan
International Airport (HAK), Sanya Fenghuang International Airport (SYX)
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| Population density : 237/km2
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List of desired foreign investment projects
: not available
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Highways/railroads : 17,000 km of
highways including three south-north and four east-west arterial highways; the
Yuehai train, a Guangzhou-Hainan rail ferry, connects the island with the
mainland rail network (note: a bridge or tunnel which would span the Qiongzhou
Strait, directly linking Hainan with the mainland, is currently being studied)
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| Weather : hot, wet summers; warm, dry
winters
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Mineral resources : crude oil,
gibbsite, gold, glass-quality quartz sand, granite, iron, mineral water,
natural gas, oil shale, sapphire, titanium, zircon, and zeolite.
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Major seaports : Basuo, Haikou,
Sanya, and Yangpu
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| Special note: the entire province of Hainan is
considered a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
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