President pays visit to Hainan fishermen

Xi calls for faster development of island as an international resort

President Xi Jinping visited fishing villages and talked with the seamen and maritime militia in Tanmen township of Qionghai city in Hainan on Monday afternoon after the end of the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2013, China Central Television reported.

The local people had been fishing in the South China Sea since ancient times, referring to it as the "ancestors' sea".