Why did Hainan separate from Guangdong to build an independent province?

1988, Hainan Island originally belonged to Guangdong Province, but officially broke away from Guangdong Province and established a special Hainan Province. Although Xinjiang and Inner Mongolia have a large land area, Hainan Province manages a vast ocean. Therefore, due to its unique geographical features, Hainan Province is a province with a small land area but a large jurisdiction area in China.

Some people are curious that Hainan Province has always been the administrative jurisdiction of Guangdong Province in history. Why should Hainan Province be separated and a new province be established? Some people think that Hainan Island is small in size and relatively poor in resources. If it is linked to Guangdong province, which is rich in materials, isn't there a broad space for development? But when you think about it, it makes sense.

In the eyes of ancient Central Plains people, Hainan Island has always been a stagnant place, and it is lonely overseas and unsuitable for living. Although the Central Plains Dynasty set up a county in Hainan during the reign of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, there were basically no Han people living there. Moreover, from the Han Dynasty to the Yuan Dynasty, the Central Plains Dynasty did not attach importance to the development of Hainan as a place for exiled prisoners.

After the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, the provincial system was further expanded, and the once huge Huguang province was divided into Huguang, Guangxi and Guangdong provinces. In the early Ming Dynasty, Hainan Island belonged to Guangxi Province. However, due to the need of management, Hainan Island was subsequently included in Guangdong Province. Hainan Island has been under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province for hundreds of years. After the Qing dynasty entered the customs, it followed the provincial system of the Ming dynasty. Although Jiangnan, Shaanxi, Huguang and other provinces have split, Hainan is still under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province.

After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), Hainan is still under the jurisdiction of Guangdong Province. Due to the weak industrial base in Hainan Province, it is not the focus of national industrial construction. After 1980s, with the deepening of reform and opening up in China, many coastal areas were changed into prefecture-level cities. Due to special circumstances, Hainan Island has the geographical advantage of being surrounded by the sea on all sides, and a lot of traffic with Guangdong depends on shipping, so decisions in many places need to be made by the province.

Therefore, in order to adapt to the new situation of reform and opening up and develop Hainan's economy, Hainan Province and Guangdong Province were separated in 1988 and a special Hainan Province was established.

At present, Hainan province, which is divided into provinces, still belongs to one of the 34 provincial administrative regions in China. Although Hainan's economy has developed rapidly, its population is small, which greatly limits its economic development. For example, Hainan has a population of just over 9 million, while the population of prefecture-level cities with large populations in Shandong and Henan provinces has also exceeded100000. It can be seen that the population of a prefecture-level city in Hainan can exceed that of a province, which also makes Hainan's economic development lack of human resources. You know, population is productivity, which is the driving force of economic development. Therefore, Hainan's economic development is facing an important problem, that is, attracting more talents.

Hainan's own industrial level is underdeveloped, which is also an important problem to be solved in economic development. As Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Guangdong Province are both brother provinces of Hainan Province with large population bases, it is a good strategy for Hainan's industrial development to attract the population of these two Lingnan provinces to Hainan for economic development.