User:CindyChen33/Sun and Moon Bay

-Description
Sun and Moon Bay is a development area and become a tourism attractions place, which located in Wanning City, Hainan Province in China. It is 168 kilometers from Haikou City and 87 kilometers from Sanya City. Sun and Moon Bay in Wanning City, which one of the seas with high quality fixed-point in the world. The water in Sun and Moon Bay is clean, the average annual temperature of the sea is about 26.5 °C, and it is suitable for Surfing all year round. The climate here is pleasant and suitable for vacation. This bay is surrounded by mountains and water, the mountains position is at the North. The species in “Sun and Moon Bay” are abundant, such as Flora and Fauna. Moreover, Sun and Moon bay is also called ‘Riyue Bay’. The reason called ‘Sun and Moon Bay’ is the shape of a bay as the half-moon-shaped. In this bay, it has white soft sandy beaches and there are boulder surges. ‘Riyue Bay’ had constructed vacationland for years, which has beautifully decorated and well-equipped standard and deluxe rooms, restaurants and some facilities in this place.This location attracted customers to spend time on vacation. Therefore, the tourism industry is developed on progressive directions due to profitable geographic location in Hainan Island.

-Location
“Sun and Moon Bay” is located in Hainan Island, which in the South China Sea.During the geological period, Hainan Island was originally connected to the Huaxia continent. About the Quaternary in the emergence of mankind, it was separated from the mainland due to crustal rupture. During this period, a 15-30 km wide Qiongzhou Strait was formed. Hence the name as "Hainan Island". “Sun and Moon Bay” is becoming a significant tourism industry from many years due to the industry development. This place has becoming higher reputation in the world and everyone said this place as a ‘treasure island’. Additionally, the Geographic Location of “Sun and Moon Bay” in Hainan Island has become the main reason of helping tourism industry development due to suitable weather conditions.

-Climate
It also records that ‘Sun and Moon Bay’ named as ‘Riyue Bay’. Sun and Moon Bay is located in the most south in China, so that the temperature is not below 15 degree for the whole year, which profitable Climate Features in Hainan. Hainan Province has over 4 prefecture-level cities, namely Haikou, Sanya, Sansha, and Shengzhou. The ‘Sun and Moon Bay’ is located in Haikou, it is one of the oceans with high-quality fixed-point and beach waves in the world. The history of Sun and Moon Bay seem to be progressive during many centuries.

-Land
The mature soil has been covered in this bay. However, the number of natural vegetation is decreasing, which includes palms, bamboo, rattan and tropical hardwood. For the east side of the mountains are in the dense tropical rain forest. The fauna in here is diversity and multiformity, including endangered species, such as Cervus eldi, Hainan Black-Crested Gibbon and Asian Black Bear. The fish are rich in streams and inshore water in this bay. This area has played an important role in Chinese History since ancient times. “Sun and Moon Bay” in Hainan Island as an independent province, which changed many times in later dynasties.

-Population
The population in here are mostly rural, which mainly focus on the North Eastern lowlands. Nevertheless, in the late 1990s, the urbanisation is sharply increasing. According to the source, which demonstrate the most citizens in the province are Han, however, perhaps one sixth are ethnic minorities. The biggest minority group has been constructed in the South central and South West regions, which known as the Miao of China. A variant of Minnan is a Hainan’s lingua Franca. Moreover, the languages are also widely used in this place, which includes Mandarin and Cantonese.

-Economy
The economy in “Sun and Moon Bay” is mainly focus on the agriculture and most of the products are export until the end of the 20th century. This place also as an agricultural society due to vegetables and fruits has been growing. Moreover, the herbs have been discovered on this area. Therefore, the China government has encouraged the overseas investment to developed economy system. This operation seems to be effectives due to the agriculture industry output to other countries.

-Weather Conditions
The Sun and Moon Bay located in Wanning City. It is belongs to a tropical maritime monsoon climate, where the climate is humid, with sufficient sunlight, abundant rain and small temperature differences. The annual average temperature in Sun and Moon Bay is 23.8 ℃, the lowest temperature is January to February, which the average temperature is 18 ℃. Nevertheless, the highest temperature is June to July, which the average temperature is above 27.7 ℃. Hainan Island is relatively humid, with an average annual humidity of 77 to 86%. These are affected by the northeast and southwest monsoons.

The annual amount of sunshine is more than 300 days in Sun and Moon Bay and the area with the most abundant sunshine is Sanya City. In additions, the average annual rainfall is nearly 1639 mm. Monsoon rain and typhoon rain are the main sources of rainwater in Hainan. The rain regulates the temperature of the entire region. Therefore, the climate feature is humid in this place.

Geographic Location
The Sun and Moon Bay located in Wanning City, which is the southeast coast of Hainan Island, bordering the South China Sea in the east. It is 112 kilometers away from Sanya City in the south and 139 kilometers away from Haikou City in the north. It is in the middle of the Eastern Expressway.

The southern Chinese mainland has been geologically connected with Hainan Island. From the Miocene and Pliocene periods, the rifting valleys crossed the Hainan Strait suddenly appears. The shape of the Hainan island is roughly oval. The research shown that the widest point about 260 kilometers from east to west, and from north to south is 210 kilometers.

-Sufficient Resources
There are abundant mineral resources in Sun and Moon Bay, Waning City. The mineral resources of Wanning City mainly include titanium, zirconium, monazite, rutile, quartzite, etc. Moreover, the Titanium is the most adequate in here. Currently it has be proved that Wanning titanium ore reserves is around 15 million tons of Hainan titanium ore reserves. It is more than 70% of the country's total reserves. Zirconium ore that is associated with titanium ore are also quite abundant. Wanning titanium ore not only has abundant reserves, but also has high ore sand grade. This is easy for selecting profitable resources. Additionally, it also has high economic advantages from deep processing the natural source.

-Agriculture Development
There are a huge number of tropical crops in Sun and Moon bay, Wanning city. It has vast mountains and fertile land. Therefore, it is a suitable area and an efficient agricultural development zone in China. In recent years, tropical crops such as rubber, pepper, pineapple, coconut, betel nut, puzzle, coffee, cocoa, etc. have been developed rapidly due to profitable geographic location. In addition, the valuable medicinal materials and spices such as white cardamom and vanilla orchid have also expanded in large areas in Wanning city. In recent years, a total of 650,000 acres of tropical crops such as pepper, pineapple, betel nut, coffee, mango, longan, lychee, and bananas have been harvested, which also improve economic system on a positive way. There are still more than 500,000 acres of barren mountains have yet to be developed. Therefore, the profitable geographic feature has improve Agriculture development.

-Flora
This location has special and unique tropic mountain rainforest, which include sophisticated vegetation, abundant wild plants and brilliant biodiversity. The speed of vegetation has been grow on a rapidly way. After preliminary identification and statistics, there are 397 species of higher plants on the island, especially 271 specials of endemic plants in Hainan Island, which are rare and protected by the province. The endangered plants include Hainan Cycad, Hainan dracaena, Hainan Dafengzi, wild logo, wild lychee and Maocha, etc. Furthermore, the valuable Chinese herbal medicines have been planted here, which include Jinbuhuan, Honeysuckle and Yam.

-Fauna
The animals have been protected on a serious way in here, especially the marine life. Marine Ecological Nature Reserve in Waning City is marine-type nature reserve. The sea area is rich in organic nutrients, so the biomass is high. From the investigation, there are 182 species of phytoplankton in the sea of the Island. The Marine animals include the cuttlefish, squid, mackerel, tuna, swordfish, pomfret, octopus, seaweed, sea urchin, yellowtail.

The competent authority of the protected area in this place is necessary. The government is responsible for the protection, construction and management of the protected with the national laws and regulations. Under the guidance of higher authorities and with the support of local governments, it will be continue to improve management capabilities and make efforts to the national environment protection cause.

Tourism Industry Development
Sun and Moon Bay has beaches, islands, hot springs, tropical rare of flora and fauna, coastal scenery and other natural landscapes, as well as cultural relics and historic sites located in Wanning city. This city known as "the first mountain in Hainan", and the Xinglong Hot Spring Tourist Area known as the "Tropical Flower Orchard". These tourism resources have high development value. At present, Sun Moon Bay is not only popular for domestic tourists, but also attract overseas tourists. These tourist service has high-quality, low fees, and rich food in “Sun and Moon Bay” which make tourists remember deeply due to unique environment.

The Sun and Moon bay is a tourist resort. It is attracting tourists from all over the world. Visitors can get the best seafood for very low prices. Hainan’s sea cucumber is popular, which is a kind of precious seafood with extremely high protein. Foreign tourists can experience delicious Hainan sea food there. In addition, the most popular entertainment is surfing in ‘Sun and Moon Bay’. This place is really a paradise for those who love surfing. Furthermore, the Sun and Moon Bay named as a “paradise” due to preferable climate features and weather conditions. Surfing as an efficient activity to provide special experience to tourist. This illustrates that ‘Sun and Moon Bay’ is a good place to develop tourism industry. Therefore, it proves that China's ‘Tourist Industry development’ has also improved dramatic due to profitable geographical location.

Environmental
Sun and Moon Bay is in superior geographical location and good natural environmental conditions. On this bay, there are military strategic points, with favourable conditions for the development of aquaculture. Furthermore, Sun and Moon Bay is also as a tourist place with higher tourism resource value, and with the potential to develop animal and plant resources. In particular, the fishery resources are rich with the high productivity in the most sea areas. Moreover, the biomass has huge number in this area. This location along the coast of Hainan Island has combine the advantages of sunlight, beach, sea water, air, etc. Therefore, this place will be able to attract investment, develop tourism, and improve island resources to a large extent. Economic system development of “Sun and Moon bay” seem to be significant for Hainan Island. Approved by the State Council in 1898, the National Science, Technology Commission and the Ministry of Agriculture to carried out a comprehensive national island investigation. The government has been attached importance to environmental of Hainan Island.