For the past two years, Qian Jun, 25, has spent at least six months a year on the 4.36-sq-km island. But he is not there to fish. As a graduate student majoring in marine biology at Hainan ...

Studies show that China has lost over 80% of its coral reefs in the past 30 years. In the South China Sea, the coral coverage on the seabed has plunged from some 60% to around 20%, and worldwide, the ...

The waters of Wanning were more dangerous. Laoye Sea in Wanning. (Hainan Daily/Zhang Mao) Compared with Wenchang and Qionghai, fewer people in Wanning ventured to Nanyang.

SANYA, April 9. /TASS/. The Chinese city of Sanya will install 870 new artificial reefs in coastal waters to improve the ocean environment, Xinhua announced on Thursday. In order to form ...

Photo taken on Jan. 30, 2022 shows corals near Wuzhizhou Island of Sanya, south China's Hainan Province. A coral planting activity was held here to greet the upcoming Chinese Lunar New Year and to ...

Hainan’s Sanya сity invests more than $6 million in coral reef restoration over 10 years In some areas off the coast of Sanya, coral reefs cover more than 50% of the seabed, showing great ...

Hong Kong's Jumbo Floating Restaurant is now belly up and stuck on a coral reef, South China Morning Post reported. The iconic tourist attraction began to sink earlier this year after capsizing in ...

New regulations in southern China aim to protect coral reefs by putting an end to the thriving trade in giant clam carvings and other handicrafts. By Rachael Bale January 10, 2017 ...

A total of 16 artificial reef structures, each measuring six square meters and weighing about 90 tons, were placed at a depth of about 20 meters off the coast of Xidao Islands and its adjacent ...

The report found that around the 23 survey spots set up by the scientific expedition team, the average coverage of reef-building coral was 24.7 percent, with a maximum of 51.3 percent, which is ...

Five years ago holidaymaker Zhang Wei came to China’s tropical resort of Hainan, a South China Sea province formed of a number of islands – and he is still there. “I still don’t have plans ...