With a 3.9 percent growth rate for housing prices, Haikou, capital city of tropical Hainan province, ranks first among the country's 70 large and midsized cities in June, while Sanya, a resort city at the southern tip of Hainan Island, ranks fourth, with a month-on-month price increase of 3.2 percent, the China News Service reported Wednesday.
Typhoon Son-Tinh, the ninth of the year, made landfall on Hainan Island early on Wednesday, bringing torrential rain and high winds, according to the Hainan meteorological observatory.
Hainan Airlines was ranked as a five-star airline for the eighth consecutive year by Skytrax on July 17.
Hainan province is set to be served by more than 100 international air routes, with Hainan Airlines taking much of the traffic to the popular tourist destination, as the Chinese government develops the island as an experimental free-trade zone, according to Chen Feng, chairman of HNA Group, the airline's holding company.
A smart legal robot was introduced in a public legal service center at a community in the Meilan district of Haikou, capital of Southern China's Hainan province, on July 4.
The Huacai Jetpon Marina Club started business in Haikou, capital of Hainan province, on July 15.
The National Meteorological Center (NMC) activated a level IV emergency response on Tuesday for the Typhoon Son-Tinh approaching China's southern provinces Hainan and Guangdong.
