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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Famous quotes containing the word events:
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—Thomas Babington Macaulay (1800–1859)
“When the world was half a thousand years younger all events had much sharper outlines than now. The distance between sadness and joy, between good and bad fortune, seemed to be much greater than for us; every experience had that degree of directness and absoluteness which joy and sadness still have in the mind of a child”
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“A curious thing about atrocity stories is that they mirror, instead of the events they purport to describe, the extent of the hatred of the people that tell them.
Still, you can’t listen unmoved to tales of misery and murder.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)