Nowadays, Hainan is one of China's special economic zones, encouraging foreign investment, trade, and tourism. With its bright sunshine, sandy beach and abundant natural resources, Hainan is quickly developing into China's Hawaii. It mainly grows tropical crops such as coffee, pepper, coconut, rubber tree, and cocoa. Now the farm has been opened up as a tourist attraction with beautiful scenery and modern facilities. There are hot springs with proper mineral contents and temperature, and the Hot Spring Hotel.
Thatched cottages look like a pyramid or a boat with reeds hanging from the roof down to the ground.
The Li people cook rice in a hollow bamboo, which gives the rice a fragrant flavor. Their home-made wine is also very special. The Li people like singing, dancing and sports. Hospitality and honesty are their tradition. It refers to a group of huge stones standing on the white-sand beach in Sanya by the South China Sea.