On April 13, 1988, Hainan Island, which has been virtually closed to the outside world for more than thirty years, was given a special commission by the Chinese Communists. They now want to build up the island within a period of twenty years in order to catch up with Taiwan's economic standard of the early eighties.
呈現半封閉狀態達卅多年之久的海南島，今年四月十三日，背負著中共所付予的任務﹘ ﹘想用廿年左右的時間建設，以趕上台灣八○年代初期的經濟水平，而躍升為「省級單位」。