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Hainan will have over 300 activities during New Year's holiday!

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What will you do in Hainan this New Year's holiday season? Sleep late? Eat dumplings with your friends and family? Go to the beach? Or, enjoy one of the more than 300 tourism, culture and sports activities being held all across the island?

Cultural Performances

Providing a rich cultural and artistic feast to locals and out-of-towners alike, musical events will include Jason Zhang in Sanya for New Year's Eve; Jacky Cheung, a New Year's Eve Lawn Concert, a New Year's Concert by the Wiener Royal Orchester, and the MOVA World Music Festival in Haikou; and the R-Day Music Festival in Chengmai.

Cultural Exhibitions

Enriching the spiritual and cultural life of locals and out-of-towners, exhibitions and activities will include the "Heavenly Craftsmanship - Technological Secrets of Historical and Cultural Relics" exhibition, the "Golden Snake Blessings" series of Spring Festival social education activities, a "Su Dongpo Art Exhibition", New Year’s Intangible Cultural Heritage celebrations, the 11th North-South Joint Sculpture Exhibition, an exhibition of “Achievements in the Protection of the Traditional Spinning, Dyeing, Weaving and Embroidery Skills of the Li Ethnicity", and the 2024 “Beautiful Hainan” Farmers' Painting Exhibition.

Tourism Promotes Consumption

A series of colorful tourism promotion activities (such as the 2025 Hainan International Motorcycle Carnival, the Haikou Lantern Festival Fireworks Gala, the 2024 'Taste of Changsha in Sanya' International Food Carnival and New Year’s Hunan Food Festival, Wenchang’s New Year's Eve and Season of Thanksgiving events, and the inaugural Bo’ao New Year’s Eve Fireworks Festival) have been planned.

The inaugural Bo’ao New Year's Eve Fireworks Festival. (Photo by "Discover Qionghai” WeChat official account)

Sporting Events

During the holiday period, a total of 2,476 people from 20 national and 45 provincial and municipal sports teams (including archery, ping-pong, sailing, and rock climbing) will conduct winter training in Hainan Province.

In welcoming a vibrant 2025 sporting events are coming to scenic areas, neighborhoods, and business districts everywhere. Major events that are open to the public (as either spectators or participants) will include the Sanya Marathon, the provincial badminton invitational, Coastal Tourism Highway Cycling Open, Haikou WB0/WBC Professional Boxing Championship, CBBA China Bodybuilding and Fitness Finals, National Surfing U Series (Lingshui), Asia-Pacific Student Memory Championship Finals, the Nanli Lake New Year’s Cycling Race and Tour.

Scenery at Nanli Lake. (Photo by Fu Wuping, People's Daily)

Folk Activities

Fully utilizing and inheriting local folk cultural resources, Hainan's tourism and culture departments are holding numerous activities including the 17th Evergreen Park Spring Festival Lantern Display, Fucheng Flower Exchange Festival, a Lantern Festival Garden Party, special “Qiong Opera to the Masses” neighborhood performances, and an Intangible Cultural Heritage series of New Year’s activities. At the same time, cultural institutions such as the provincial museum and the South China Sea Museum have also launched folklore-related exhibitions and activities including social education activities like "Celebrating the New Year at the South China Sea Museum" where— via interactive methods such as guessing lantern riddles and making glutinous rice balls—participants will be able to feel the charm of traditional culture in a relaxed and pleasant atmosphere.

While this is going on—and in order to enrich the winter travel experience of the snowbirds who have come to Hainan from all over China—the island’s tourism and culture departments have launched fifty high-quality tourist routes covering city walks, natural scenery, family friendly fun, health and wellness, and cultural experiences.

2024 Qiongshan Fucheng Lantern Festival & Flower Exchange Festival. (Photo by Yao Hao, Hinews）

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