Pins matching place:Hainan

Cantonese and Hainanese cooking beside Coral Bay, with a current autumn menu featuring island ingredients.

Sea views, Hainan-inspired cocktails and a priced evening snack menu at Mandarin Oriental Sanya.

Beachfront seafood and Western cooking with Hainan ingredients, from local prawns to Wenchang chicken.

Live cooking stations, local Hainan favourites and a published children’s buffet dining benefit.

Cantonese dining and daily lunch dim sum beside the Mission Hills golf courses.

A rooftop Asian dining bar with golf-course views and an operator-published sunset tea service.

China Tourism Group Duty Free (CDFG), the Hainan-based operator behind most of the country's duty-free shopping, reported 2024 revenue of CNY56.47 billion, down 16.4%, as weak domestic demand and falling Hainan sales hit results.

China's navy commissioned the 80,000-ton Fujian, its third aircraft carrier and first with electromagnetic catapults, at Yulin Naval Base on Hainan with Xi Jinping in attendance.

China switched on island-wide independent customs operations across the Hainan Free Trade Port, expanding zero-tariff product coverage from 21% to 74% of tariff lines and duty-free items from about 1,900 to roughly 6,600.

China flew a Long March 10 prototype and the Mengzhou crew capsule from Wenchang on 11 February 2026, the first Max-Q abort test, with both stage and capsule recovered at sea.

Feng Xiaogang's period drama I Know Who You Are (抓特务), with Lei Jiayin and Hu Ge as neighbours watching each other for nearly four decades, opened in China on 19 June 2026. Its box office was weak and reception mixed.

A Long March 7A carrying ChinaSat-4B failed about 85 seconds after liftoff from Wenchang on 10 August 2026, the rocket's first failure since its 2020 debut.

The Sanya Bay restaurant announced its September 9 reopening with a refreshed space and menu.

The 2026 World New Energy Vehicle Congress ran 22-24 September at the Hainan International Convention and Exhibition Center in Haikou, with an MIIT official saying NEVs now exceed 25% of global car sales.

China's new-generation Mengzhou spacecraft and the crew-rated Long March 10A rocket are scheduled to fly together for the first time in late 2026, an uncrewed test docking at Tiangong.

China said Chang'e-7 'does not meet the conditions for launch' in its August 2026 window, postponing the lunar south pole lander until early 2027, with a February or March window rumoured.

玉兰花开君再来 ("The Way You Come Back") is Tencent Video's S+ biographical drama starring Yang Zi (杨紫) as Dong Zhujun, the courtesan-turned-founder of Shanghai's Jin Jiang Hotel, with Ou Hao (欧豪) as her husband Xia Zhishi. Directed by Yang Yang of A Dream of Splendor, it began filming in Haikou in December 2025 and wrapped in Beijing on 25 May 2026, and is set for CCTV-8 and Tencent Video. No air date has been announced, so the premiere shown here is an estimate.