Flights to sunny spots on southern Hainan Island have been at nearly full capacity.
Lanzhou in north-west Gansu ranked last, while Haikou on southern Hainan island was rated with the cleanest air.
Our aircraft made an emergency landing in an airfield on China's Hainan Island.
The patterns also distinguish the five major spoken dialects of Hainan Island.
Osborn said he made "at least 15 mayday calls" as the plane limped toward the nearest landing strip -- China's Lingshui military base on Hainan Island.
Last year the Hainan Island development staged the World Cup teams event for the first time, taking over from the Mission Hills complex at Shenzhen.
Growth in pivotal Guangdong province slowed and business on Hainan Island was brought to a virtual standstill by a real-estate bubble, now once more a problem.
Howell, the European Tour Order of Merit leader, got off to a flying start at the Yalong Bay Golf Club on Hainan Island with a birdie at the first.
Hainan Island's strategic location provides quick access to the critical sea lines of communication that lead to northeastern Asia and Australia, plus ready access to the broad reaches of the Western Pacific.
The newest entrant to the luxury club might be the Banyan Tree resort on the island of Hainan, which is set to open in April.
Couples in the southern island province of Hainan even braced bad weather and lined up in the rain, waiting for their chance to say "I do".
State media said patrols in the southern island province of Hainan would be able to board foreign ships that stopped in its waters or violated other regulations.
Instead, cruise-goers will eat and sleep onboard and only sightsee on the island, said Hainan deputy governor Tan Li at press conference at the annual Boao Forum for Asia over the weekend.
Indeed, the island province of Hainan off the southern coast even wants to leapfrog such decades-old technologies as credit and debit cards and automated teller machines and move directly to microchip-laden smart cards.
Instead, cruise-goers would eat and sleep onboard and would only do sightseeing on the island, said Hainan deputy governor Tan Li at press conference at the annual Boao Forum for Asia at the weekend.
In February international publicity forced a hotel, the Mangrove Tree Resort World in Hainan, a southern vacation island, to close a casino bar for guests that paid out winnings in tokens that could be redeemed for hotel rooms and spent in resort shops.
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Hainan Governor Ruan Chongwu prodded the island to get smart two years ago, when everyone else was still pushing credit cards as the hot new shopping accessory.
They focus instead on the island's 100km (60 miles) of sandy, mostly undeveloped, shoreline, hoping it has the same pulling power as the beaches of Hainan, a (much larger) tropical island off the southern coast that has become the playground of China's rich.
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