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unusual facts about Dongfang, Hainan



2001 in China

April 1 – Hainan Island incident: a mid-air collision between an EP-3E United States Navy spyplane and a People's Liberation Army Navy People's Liberation Army J-8II interceptor fighter jet 70 miles (110 km) away from the PRC-controlled island of Hainan.

Arthur Varley

However, on 12 September his transport, the Rakuyo Maru, carrying around 1,250 prisoners, was amongst those torpedoed off Hainan by the United States submarine USS Sealion.

Australian reticulate swellshark

Once thought to be the same species as the reticulated swellshark (C. fasciatum) of Vietnam and Hainan, the Australian reticulate swellshark was described as a separate species by William White and David Ebert in a 2008 Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation (CSIRO) publication.

Beijing Chaoyang Park

A temporary beach volleyball stadium was constructed at Chaoyang Park to host the beach volleyball events of the 2008 Summer Olympics, using sand shipped in from Hainan island.

Charlie Soong

Charlie Soong was born as Han Jiaozhun (韓教準) in the western suburbs of Wenchang City, Hainan, China as the third son of Han Hongyi (韓鴻翼 Hán Hóngyì) sometime between 1863 and 1866.

China Poly Group Corporation

Having its affiliated enterprises and projects in Beijing, Shanghai, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Wuhan, Changsha, Tianjin, Harbin, Shenyang, Chongqing, Hainan, and Hong Kong etc., the Group Corporation has made significant achievements in capital scale, economic benefits, business management and system construction, characterized by professionalism, scale operation and optimal allocation of resources.

Diamella cupreomicans

In China it can be found found in such provinces as Guangxi, Hainan, and Yunnan, while in Indonesia it is found on Borneo, Java and Sumatra islands.

Dongfang Meiren

Dongfang meiren is the chhiⁿ-sim tōa-phàⁿ (青心大冇) cultivar grown without pesticides to encourage a common pest, the tea green leafhopper (Jacobiasca formosana), to feed on the leaves, stems, and buds.

Dongfang, Hainan

It is located on the western coast of Hainan Island facing Vietnam across the Gulf of Tonkin, and in 2004 had a population of 435,000.

Dongpo

Dongpo Academy (東坡書院), former academy located in Hainan, built in 1098 in memory of Su Dongpo

Draco maculatus

Southern China (Hainan, Guangxi, Yunnan, Tibet), India (E. Himalayas to Assam), Bangladesh (Satchari National Park, Sylhet), Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Thailand and W. Malaysia.

Dugu Sun

Zhu agreed, and initially a large number of them were demoted and exiled—in Dugu's case, to be the prefect of Di Prefecture (棣州, in modern Binzhou, Shandong), and then to be the census officer of Qiong Prefecture (瓊州, in modern Ding'an, Hainan).

Gonghe

Gonghe County (共和县), of Hainan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture, Qinghai

Grand China Air

Grand China Air is managed under a parent company called Grand China Airlines Holding Company (GCAHC) which is held jointly by Hainan province government (48.6%), George Soros (18.6%), and the HNA group (32.8%).

Gynautocera papilionaria

It is found in south-east Asia, including northern India, Thailand, Laos, Assam, Burma, Vietnam, Tonkin, Hainan, Sumatra, Java, Lombok, Celebes, Amboina, Buru and Batjan.

Haikou

Haikou is situated on the north coast of Hainan Island, by Haikou Bay, facing the Leizhou Peninsula across the Qiongzhou Strait that stretches west from Beibu Bay near Vietnam to the James Shoal bordering the South China Sea to the west.

Haima

Haima Automobile, a Chinese automobile manufacturer based in Hainan

Hitotsu

"Sign", sung in her native Tibetan language, was re-included on her second Chinese album Xin De Dongfang (2009).

Li Xinggang

B-59-1, Wenchuan Earthquake Memorial, Fuxing Road, Xierqi Station and Beijing Subway Line 4 Stations o Hainan International Conference & Exhibition Center in Haikou.

Li'an Ocean Harbor Theme Park

Li'an Ocean Harbor Theme Park (海南陵水海洋主题公园) is a water park scheduled to open in Lingshui, Hainan Province, China.

Long March 5

Instead, the rockets will be transported by sea from Tianjin to a new launch facility at Wenchang on Hainan Island.

Mission Hills Golf Club

When the World Cup resumed in 2011, the tournament moved to another property owned by the Mission Hills company, Mission Hills Haikou, located on Hainan Island, a tournament won by the United States' team of Matt Kuchar and Gary Woodland.

Penis removal

On July 11, 2003, in Dongfang, Hainan, China, a woman used a fruit knife to cut off the penis of her 40-year-old husband Huang.

Qiongzhou

Qiongzhou Strait, strait between Leizhou Peninsula and Hainan Island, China.

Slavery in Vietnam

A 1499 entry in the Ming Shilu recorded that thirteen Chinese men from Wenchang including a young man named Wu Rui were captured by the Vietnamese after their ship was blown off course while traveling from Hainan to Guangdong's Qin subprefecture (Qinzhou), after which they ended up near the coast of Vietnam, during the Chenghua Emperor's rule (1447 - 1487) .

Thian Hee

Thian Hee's father was a Chinese pharmacist who had immigrated from Hainan in the 19th century.

Wei Fangzhi

When someone warned him that not doing so risked offending them, he responded, "Life and death are all determined by heaven. How can a real man prostrate himself to flatter imperial relatives just to avoid disaster?" Soon, Wei was falsely accused by Empress Dowager Wu's trusted secret police official Zhou Xing, and he was exiled to Dan Prefecture (儋州, roughly modern Danzhou, Hainan), and his assets were seized.

Xianghua

Danzhou dialect, a dialect of Yue Chinese (Cantonese) around Danzhou, Hainan


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