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2 min readHainan Island is shaped like a pyramid. High mountain peaks dominate thecenter of the island. The central mountains include the famous Wuzhishan Mountain with a height of 1,876 meters, which is 300 meters higher than Shandong’s best-known Mount Tai. Wuzhishan is surrounded by more than 600 other tall peaks with valleys, plains, rivers and lakes interspersed among them. Hainan’s topography is so complicated that supernatural and peculiar tropical physiognomy exists in its rainforests. The island has a wide variety of ecosystems, including forests, grasslands, estuaries, mangrove swamps, coral reef.
bottomland, everglades, lagoons and so on. More than 50% of the island is covered by forests. Thus when viewed from outer space, the whole land looks like a jungle-covered mountain with rivers and valleys here and there.
Situated at the same latitude as Hawaii, Hainan Island has the heaviest rainfall of any place located at this latitude in the world. The island is blessed with abundant sunshine and warmth, giving a spring-like climate all year round. Tropical crops such as rice, sugarcane, palm oil, cinnamon, sisal, betel nuts, coffee, tea, sweet potatoes, groundnuts and tobacco can flourish all year round. At all times and in all places, the flowers are in full bloom and the birds are singing in the trees. Hainan Island is rich in biological resources, such as pleasant seas, attractive beaches, rivers, mountains, and the virgin forests. It has long been called the “Natural Greenhouse”,”Hot Spring Island”,”Tropical Orchard”and “Ever-blooming Garden”. Hainan is well known for the sheer variety of its tropical fruits which include coconut, jackfruit, pineapple, mango lychee, longan, banana, rambutan, naseberry, durian, papaw, olive, guava fruit wampee, Chinese gooseberry and so on. The virgin tropical rain forests are also home to more than 4,600 kinds of fascicular plants, of which more than 600 kinds are local species found only on Hainan Island. The island boasts some 560 vertebrates animal species, many of which are endangered or on the verge of extinction elsewhere in the world. Some 37 are amphibians, and 11 of them are found only on Hainan Island. Altogether there are 134 rare animal species and 344 rare bird species on Hainan Island that are under state protection. Thus Hainan can also be seen as a key storage house for rare animal species and their genes. Only in Hainan can you have the kind of feeling that time flies backward and really appreciate just how broad and mysterious nature can be.
With its tropical ocean climate, many beaches, rare living creatures and clean fresh air, Hainan is becoming a popular resort site both at home and abroad.
