Sanya
is an important political, economic, cultural and foreign trade
port in the Southern part of Hainan, China, and also a famous
coastal tourist city filled with tropical landscapes and local
customs. Since Sanya is situated in the southernmost part of
China, she has been called "the remotest cape of the earth"
since ancient time.
The region
of Sanya has a long history of human development. There were
discoveries of cultural relics of the Old Stone Age. Ancient
Persian tombs were found along the coast.
Sanya region
was called Ahuya Prefecture in the western Han dynasty, later
changed to Linzhen Prefecture in the Sui Dynasty, Zhen Zhou
in the Tang dynasty, Ya Zhou in the Song Dynasty, Ya County
in 1920 and Sanya City in 1984.
