Events
Numerous events are hosted or sponsored on the island, including:
- Miss World beauty pageant is regularly held in the city of Sanya.
- Mission Hills Star Trophy is an annual golf tournament that started in 2010.
- Tour of Hainan bicycle race
- Hainan Rendez-Vous, an annual four-day event that draws China's ultra high net worth individuals to the Chinese Riviera-like shores of Hainan
- Ironman triathlon
- Boao Forum for Asia, held in Boao, is an international high-level government, business, and academia forum.
- H1 Hot Air Balloon Challenge is held annually in Haikou. Balloons from across the nation fly over the Qiongzhou Strait from Haikou to a designated location on the mainland in Xunwen County, Guangdong.
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