After their announcement in April that Hainan Island would be promoted to provincial status, the Chinese Communists declared that in twenty years its living standards would catch up to those of Taiwan during the 1970s. Will Hainan become a second Taiwan?
海南島在今年四月宣佈建省之後，中共聲稱將在廿年內趕上台灣七十年代的水準；海南島將成為「台灣第二」嗎？