Ocean Flower Island
Ocean Flower Island
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| Country | China |
| Province | Hainan |
| Administrative division | Danzhou |
| Area | |
• Total | 3.81 km2 (1.47 sq mi) |
| Time zone | UTC+8 |
| • Summer (DST) | China Standard |
| Area code | (0)898 |
| Website | hhd.evergrande.com (archived) |
Ocean Flower Island (Chinese: 海花岛) is an artificial archipelago located off the northern coast of Danzhou, a city in Hainan, China. It was built by the Evergrande Group and consists of three islets with a total area of 381 hectares (940 acres). Construction was mostly completed by 2020, with trial runs for tours beginning on 1 January 2021.
Geography
[edit | edit source]Ocean Flower Island is an artificial archipelago situated within Yangpu Bay in the Chinese province of Hainan, off the northern coast of Danzhou and to the west of the Yangpu Peninsula.[1] It consists of three independent islets with a total area of 381 hectares (940 acres).[2]
History
[edit | edit source]Plans to create Ocean Flower Island were announced in 2015,[3][4] and the project received an initial investment of CN¥160 billion (US$24 billion).[5][6] Construction of the island and its buildings had mostly finished by the end of 2020, and the first trial runs for tours were held on 1 January 2021.[7]
Zhang Qi, a provincial Communist Party official who was convicted of corruption in December 2020, had approved land reclamation projects to build the island, in violation of Hainan's environmental protection laws. The construction of the island damaged coral reefs and oyster populations. The boundaries of the protected area around the island were later restored.[8]
Over 200,000 people visited the island to celebrate National Day on 1 October 2021.[9]
On 30 December 2021, the city of Danzhou ordered the developer Evergrande, which was in the middle of a liquidity crisis, to demolish 39 of its buildings on the island. The buildings had been built illegally because they violated local planning laws; the company was given ten days to take the buildings down. In a statement, Evergrande said the demolition notice applied only to buildings on plot 2-14-1 located on No. 2 Island, and "[did] not involve other plots of land of the Ocean Flower Island project".[10][11]
See also
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