Natural Resources

Hainan’s abundant natural resources mahe her rich. Agricultural products grown on Hainan included bananas, binlang (or betal nut), coconuts, litchi, longan, mangoes and many other varieties of tropical fruit. With large tracts of tropical rainforest stoll undamaged by man Hainan boast a forest coverage rate of 58% or more. There are over 4000 types of plant native to the island of which 630 are uniquely hainanese. The coastline stetches 1528 kilometers with sixty eight natural harbors. More than 800 different kinds of minerals found on Hainan, thirty six of which are both valuable and found in large enough quantities to mine. The coastal waters are rich in oil and natural gas of which  its estimated more than 700 billion cubic meters of the 1040 billion cubic meters will be extractable.