In Mo Qun's eyes, Sansha, the country's youngest city, will become China's Maldives, attracting tourists for island-to-island trips in the near future.
Editor's note: China Daily reporter Huang Yiming visits Yongxing Island, part of the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea, to observe the establishment of Sansha city, the smallest prefecture-level city in China in land area and population. Residents talked about their lives on the small island.
Reporter's Log | Huang Yiming
A former finance officer has made it his responsibility to conserve the environment of Xisha Islands. Liu Zhihua reports in Beijing.
The Hainan provincial department of ocean and fisheries will review a wharf-building project in Jinqing Island of the Xisha Islands.
The Sino-Russian border island, Heixiazi, is expected to receive tourists in late July, a local official has said.
Take a look at the wonderland: China's Xisha Islands.
China plans to let tourists visit the Xisha Islands in the South China Sea this year, the vice governor of Hainan province said Tuesday.
Heixiazi Island, a border island linking China and Russia, opened as a resort destination for Chinese tourists on Wednesday as part of an experiment to see if that change will beneft tourism industries.
Yongxing Island, which was formed by white coral shells that piled on the reefs and covered 2.13 square kilometers, is the largest of the Paracel Islands in the South China Sea.
There is a city in China with a population of less than 10,000 and an area of almost one-fourth of China's territory. It is Sansha. What does Sansha look like and how is life there?