It took Sanya 25 years of hard work to build itself into a world-class tourist resort; no small feat when people consider that it was nothing more than a poor fishing village, according to Jiang Sixian, vice-governor of Hainan province and Party secretary of Sanya city.
A recently announced duty-free entitlement brought an influx of tourists to Sanya in April and May, a normally dull part of the tourist business.
Five attractive reasons to pay Sanya a visitSanya, known in history as Yazhou (Cliff state), is China's southernmost city and lies on the South China Sea coast.
China's first tropical sea ranch begins constructionConstruction of China's first tropical sea ranch began on May 24 in Sanya, a coastal resort city in Hainan Province, said an official with the Sanya Ocean and Fisheries bureau.
A recently announced duty-free entitlement brought an influx of tourists to Sanya in April and May, a normally dull part of the tourist business.