An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 22, 2026 shows a tourist riding motorcycle at the Baoting section of a scenic ring road surrounding the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
The scenic ring road surrounding the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park passes through nine cities and counties in Hainan, including Lingshui, Baoting, Ledong and Changjiang, with a total length of 466 kilometers. The ring road was officially opened to traffic in December 2024.
This road connects the beautiful scenery of the mountainous areas in the central and southern parts of Hainan Island and builds a green corridor that balances ecological protection and cultural tourism development.
At present, many tourists come to cycle and drive on the road, boosting tourism-related consumption including accommodation, catering, specialty agricultural products, and outdoor culture and tourism along the road.
Tourists enjoy themselves at the Diaoluoshan section of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province, Sept. 9, 2026. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 22, 2026 shows a view of a scenic ring road surrounding the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)This photo taken on Sept. 9, 2026 shows a typical rainforest view at the Diaoluoshan section of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)An aerial drone photo taken on Aug. 22, 2026 shows a view of the Ledong section of a scenic ring road surrounding the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)An aerial drone photo taken on Sept. 11, 2026 shows a view of the Maogan Township in Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, through which a scenic ring road surrounding the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park passes, in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)A panoramic drone photo taken on Sept. 10, 2026 shows a view of the Wuzhishan section of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)A drone photo taken on Sept. 10, 2026 shows a view of the Wuzhishan section of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2026 shows the Maogan Agriculture, Culture and Tourism Comprehensive Service Center in Maogan Township of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)This photo taken on Sept. 11, 2026 shows the specialty agricultural products on display at the Maogan Agriculture, Culture and Tourism Comprehensive Service Center in Maogan Township of Baoting Li and Miao Autonomous County, south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)This photo taken on Sept. 9, 2026 shows a stream at the Diaoluoshan section of the Hainan Tropical Rainforest National Park in south China’s Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Zamir Ahmed Awan runs the Global Silk Route Research Alliance, a think tank he
started in Islamabad. He studied engineering at Shanghai University in the 1980s, then spent six years in
Beijing as Pakistan's science counsellor, from 2010 until 2016, working on science
and higher education cooperation between the two countries. After that he came home
and joined the China Studies Centre at NUST. He retired from there. His work centres on CPEC and the wider Belt and Road, and his articles run in Modern
Diplomacy and on Think Tank Pakistan. China Daily and China News Service have both
quoted the work.
