Haikou, also known as "Coconut City", is a prefecture-level city and provincial capital of Hainan Province, an international comprehensive transportation hub city, a national "Belt and Road" strategic fulcrum city, and a core city of Hainan Free Trade Port. Located in north latitude 19 3 1'~ 20 04', east longitude 1 10.
By 2020, the city will administer four districts, with a permanent population of 2,873,400, and be fluent in Minnan dialect and Hainan dialect. In 2020, Haikou will achieve a regional GDP of17965438+58 million yuan. ?
Haikou is located in the tropics with diverse tropical resources. It is a southern coastal city with beautiful natural scenery along the coast. It has a history of thousands of years since the opening of the port in the Northern Song Dynasty. Haikou was founded on February 9, 1926, and was liberated on April 23, 1950. 1988 13 In April, Hainan established a provincial special economic zone, and Haikou was designated as the capital of Hainan Province.
Haikou consists of Hainan Island (a part of the island), Haidian Island and Xinbu Island, with a total area of 3 126.83 square kilometers, including 2,284.49 square kilometers of land area and 86 1.44 square kilometers of sea area. Haikou enjoys a comfortable and pleasant climate and a first-class ecological environment, ranking first in the national air quality ranking list of 168 cities at prefecture level and above issued by the Ministry of Ecology and Environment of the People's Republic of China all the year round, with a green coverage rate of 43.5%. It was selected by the World Health Organization as the first pilot project of "World Healthy City" in China.
Haikou has the honorary titles of "China's charming city, China's happiest city, China's top ten beautiful living cities, China's most investment potential city, China's excellent tourist city, national historical and cultural city, national civilized city and national double-support model city", won the annual "China Habitat Environment Award" issued by the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development, and was awarded the first batch of "International Wetland Cities" by the United Nations International Convention on Wetlands in 20 18.