The traditional Li textile techniques of spinning, dyeing, weaving and embroidering are employed by women of the Li ethnic group of Hainan Province, China, to make cotton, hemp and other fibres into clothing and other daily necessities.

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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".

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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.

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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.

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