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 ...

A boat with staff members of the Hainan South China Sea Institute of Tropical Ocean on board is on the way to Dongluo Island off the coast of Sanyan, Hainan province, in May for a coral reef ...

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 ...

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 ...

SANYA /China/, March 28. /TASS/. Five years into Hainan’s coral reef restoration project off the coast of Wuzhizhou Island near the city of Sanya (Hainan Province, South China) the local coral ...

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 ...

HAIKOU /China/, April 4. /TASS/. The area of coral reefs near the popular among Chinese scuba divers small island Wuzhizhou in the waters of the resort city of Sanya, the southern coast of Hainan ...