The Third Hainan Island International Film Festival is scheduled to be held in Sanya, Hainan province from Dec 5 to 12, with a total of 4,376 films from 114 countries and regions having been submitted, almost double the total submissions from last year's edition.
Ding'an county in Hainan province held a special photography art exhibition on Sept 22 to mark the 2020 Chinese Farmers' Harvest Festival, showcasing photos displaying the happy lives of local farmers and local poverty alleviation efforts.
South China's island province of Hainan will hold an international culture week in November focusing on brocade and embroidery works from various countries, as well as from the local Li ethnic group.
The 2020 China (South China Sea) Sanya Fishing Festival kicked off at Sanya Yazhou Fishing Port on Aug 16 after three months of fishing ban, marking the beginning of a new mariculture and fishing season in 2020.
Experts and scholars gathered at Hainan University on July 18 for a seminar and book launch ceremony on the subject of Su Shi, also called Su Dongpo, a literary giant of the Song Dynasty (960-1279).
The 2020 Hainan Rural Tourism Cultural Festival kicked off on June 19 in Qionghai, a city in Hainan province that boasts peaceful scenery that has been compared to a landscape pastoral painting.
The city of Sanya hosted an international underwater carnival on May 25 at Wuzhizhou Island tourist resort, with over 30 photographers and mermaid models from across China invited to record and display the province's mysterious undersea views.