As the capital city of the province, the city has a full range of services and convenient transportation. Meilan Airport is 18 kilometers away from the city. The ports are mainly Xiuying Port and New Port. With the province's cities and counties are connected by highway, public transportation in all directions is very convenient, the city's various types of cabs running day and night. In addition, the pollution-free ecological environment of Hainan Island, so that seafood has become a major specialty of Hainan, the sea food is also a variety of fancy, local flavor unique. Native products include coffee, coconut sugar, coconut velvet, natural coconut juice, coconut sauce, bananas, pineapples and pineapple honey and other tropical fruits.
As the commercial center of Hainan, it brings together goods from all over the island. The large shopping malls have increased in recent years, in addition to the original Lepusheng, the first department store, Sheng Sheng department store, there are also DC City, Pearl Plaza, Oriental Plaza and so on. In addition, you can also visit the traditional folk market and experience the local customs. Haixiu Avenue is one of the busiest commercial streets, with many tourist souvenir stores in the vicinity of the hotel. Among them, well-decorated are generally jewelry stores, mainly selling Hainan specialties of beads, crystals, tortoiseshell; there are also many souvenir stores, where you can buy Xinglong coffee, pepper, coconut sugar, horn carvings, coconut carvings and other Hainan specialties. They are usually factory-direct stores, so the prices will not be very high. Li style textiles and handicrafts are sold in the big shopping centers, which are not bad gifts for your friends and family at home. The Dadongmen Market is a distribution center for dried seafood, from which you can bring back red fish and squid, which are popular among Hainanese.
And don't forget to take a trip to the Bailongnan Fruit Wholesale Market, where mangoes, pineapples, pineapple honeys, coconuts, and poppies ...... from Hainan are a delicacy you can't taste anywhere else. If you have the courage, you may want to try the king of tropical fruits - durian. Its smell is very irritating to the olfactory senses, but it does taste good! Here are the specialties.
Pearls
Hainan has a lot of pearl-cultured seawater beads, and there are many stores specializing in the sale of pearls, so be aware that there are some unscrupulous vendors who pass off fake pearls as real. It is best to go to some of the big jewelry stores to buy, such as Jingrun pearl, store is located in the sea show road opposite Wang Hailou, 66750129. If you buy in the individual store, pay attention to identify, there is a simple method is to use two pearls mutual abundance of friction, there are astringent feeling is true, smooth main is false. However, the quality is based on the age, big or not, round, color, piercing technology, etc., you may not have experience, but remember to kanji, at least half. In addition, only seawater beads are Hainan specialty.
Li brocade
Li brocade ancient name "Ji Bei" cloth, is the Li people using cotton within the capsule of kapok hand-woven a special flower cloth, as far as the Spring and Autumn period on the reputation, but also the earliest China's cotton textiles. Li brocade, including tube skirt, head scarf, flower belt, bag belt, bed sheet, quilt (ancient name "Yazhou quilt"), etc., with spinning, weaving, dyeing, embroidery and other four major crafts, the color is generally red, yellow, black, white several kinds of composition of exotic flowers and grasses, birds, animals and people and other patterns. Li brocade fine, soft, white, durable, "Li brocade light colorful as clouds" is the ancient people of Li brocade weaving technology issued by the heartfelt praise. The style of the tube skirt is similar to the short skirt.
Coconut carving
Carved from coconut shells, there are lovely coconut carving dolls, exquisite keychains, loaded with tea, naive coconut carving pig, as well as hanging on the wall of the coconut carving paintings, other forms of coconut carving artifacts ...... ah, it's really countless, come to Hainan must not forget to take one home oh.
Coral bonsai
Coral bonsai is a sea of wonders, produced in the tropical ocean, known as the "sea rock flower". In fact, it is neither a plant, nor a mineral, but countless coral polyps (a life in the tropical waters of the coelacanth) of the remains of the collection of fossils, natural growth in the sea, strange shapes, wonderful. White snow, red as blood, green like emerald, yellow gold. These "undersea flowers" and then processed by craftsmen, with shells and willow and exquisite chassis, will become elegant and popular **** appreciation, a variety of coral bonsai.
Shell series products
There are many kinds of shells and conch shells with strange shapes and colorful. Among them, tiger shells, white jade shells, luminous shells, five-clawed shells, mother-of-pig shells, pearl shells, chaste shells, Tangkuan shells, seven-horned shells, pig's ear shells, as well as horseshoe shells that can be used as ashtrays, and the big-horned shells that can be used as the role of horns for fishermen, etc., are all the natural handicrafts that attract the people's attention. The smooth and oily shells that are made into various kinds of paintings, utensils and furnishings by carving and inlaying have the characteristics of bright and natural colors and noble and elegant styles. Shells are made into a variety of practical handicrafts, such as wine, ornaments, pendants, necklaces, chest ornaments, etc., exquisite and luxurious not less than jade. Shell carving is also very distinctive. Hainan shell carving craft in the Ming Dynasty has a very high level, and gradually and the ancient coconut carving process combined to form a unique artistic style. All refined Hainan shell carving, and coconut carving, inlaid, or coconut carving for the seat frame. Bright shell carving and simple coconut carving contrast, eye-catching. In recent years, to the coconut grove scenery, the end of the world, five ancestral temples, Ma'anling crater and other attractions in Hainan as the subject of a variety of small pieces of shell carving paintings, very popular with travelers.
Butterfly wing painting and other animal and plant specimens series products
The butterfly wings as the main material, the use of its unique pattern, the use of a special process of collage into the effect of oil paintings, paintings, gouache paintings, craft paintings. The painting is handmade, precious raw materials, is a high-grade works of art, has a high ornamental value and collection value, has been the National Palace Museum collection. At present, there are more than 200 specifications and varieties of butterfly paintings made in Hainan. Hainan's forest coverage of 51.5%, butterfly resources, *** there are more than 500 kinds of, especially in the Jianfengling, Hangluo Mountain and other mountainous areas for the most. Various kinds of butterflies, the gold class phoenix butterfly, through the wings of the broadband phoenix butterfly, arrow pattern Li Nymphalid butterfly, pecked butterfly, purple light butterfly belongs to the domestic rare varieties, those who have a large number of butterflies and not in the national protection of the species of butterflies listed in the resources for the production of Hainan butterfly wing paintings provide a unique conditions.
With the gradual deepening of reform and opening up and the city's comprehensive competitiveness continues to strengthen, the national economy has achieved sustained, rapid and healthy development, the city's gross domestic product in 2005 was 30.135 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 12.1%; the total annual financial income of 6.083 billion yuan, an average annual growth rate of 21.4%. Since 1992, the city has been ranked among the "Top 50 Chinese Cities in Comprehensive Environmental Strength" and "Top 40 Chinese Cities in Hard Environment for Investment", and has been recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Ministry of Health of the People's Republic of China (MOH) as the only pilot of the World Healthy City in the country and has been awarded the "China Outstanding Tourist City". "China's excellent tourist city", "Top Ten Cities for Comprehensive Improvement of the National Urban Environment", "National Sanitary City, National Model City for Environmental Protection", "National Advanced City in Gardening and Greening", "National Top Ten Cities in Afforestation and Greening" and a series of other honorary titles. The goal of the future city construction is to strive to build an important economic city around the Beibu Gulf, a garden city in South China, an ideal second place of residence both at home and abroad, and a world-famous green international city with tropical scenery and coastal characteristics.
Famous food Hainan powder
Hainan's most distinctive flavor snacks, passed down a long history, in the northern part of the island of Hainan Qiongshan City, Ding'an County and Chenggmai County towns and cities in the residents to eat more common, and is a festival must symbolize the auspiciousness of longevity of the treasures. There are two types of Hainan noodles: coarse and fine. Coarse powder ingredients are relatively simple, only in the coarse powder into the hot pickled beef soup, mixed with a little shrimp paste, tender pepper, green onions, popping peanut rice, etc. that is, called "coarse powder soup"; and fine powder is more elaborate, to use a variety of ingredients, flavors and thickening sauce to be stirred and pickled to eat, called "Pickled Powder "The Hainan noodles are usually referred to this kind of noodles. Hainan powder usually refers to this type of "pickled powder". Multi-flavored aroma, soft and smooth, stimulate the appetite, so eat more and not greasy, love to eat spicy with a little chili sauce is more flavorful, eat to the end of the remaining small amount of powder, add a small bowl of steaming sea mussels soup and eat, it is full of fragrance, aftertaste.