Everest without oxygen, exponentially more than a national public-relations campaign budget from Harbin to Hainan.
In 2007, the company sold 50 aircraft to Hainan Airlines in Shanghai.
Clinton's trip to Hainan is a sensitive issue for Washington.
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In 1993 the People's Bank of Hainan decided to establish a provincial financial-data network using a credit card with a microchip.
From health reform, Hainan wants to put pensions and industrial and commercial insurance on the little cards with the ultimate goal of reducing the use of cash and checks to the bare minimum.
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.
Flights to sunny spots on southern Hainan Island have been at nearly full capacity.
Hainan has played host to one-off poker tournaments, including a World Poker Tour event held in December.
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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.
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.
The golden-headed langur of Vietnam and China's Hainan gibbon are down to a few dozen and the Horton Plains slender loris of Sri Lanka has been spotted only four times since 1937.
In another phone interview moments later with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Weaver and her crew were in their car with a police officer, who was directing the driver to take them to the public security bureau at Hainan's civilian airport.
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.
Every hawker centre has one or more stalls serving Hainan chicken rice, a dish dear to the Singaporean heart.
Another advantage for Hainan: it won't have to update its equipment because it will already be far ahead of the pack.
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.
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.
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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Despite significant damage to the U.S. aircraft, its pilot was able to make an emergency landing on the Chinese island of Hainan, where the crew and plane have been detained since the April 1 collision.
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.
America has particular worries about a naval base China is building on Hainan island, from where its vessels will have easy access to South-East Asia's shipping lanes most importantly the Malacca Strait.
Earlier this week the airline's boss had used the same half-hearted phrase to express his hopes of reviving takeover talks with the Chinese state owners of Hainan Airlines.
The Chinese navy was linked in 1985 to illegal smuggling in foreign cars, vans, TVs and VCRs out of Hainan island in the South China Sea, he wrote.
"Contrary to some releases, this aircraft was straight, steady, holding altitude and heading away from Hainan Island, " he said.
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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