Everything's coming up roses in Sanya
As its landscape and hospitality features increasingly remind people of Hawaii and Dubai, a rose valley in Hainan province is emerging as an ecological and leisure lure that gives off a Claude Monet-style elegance and romance to the country's only tropical province.
Wearing a bamboo hat and scarf to shield herself from the scorching sun, Li Yumei, a mother of three children, and other local women carefully trim the rose plants that will begin to blossom in about a month at the Yalong Bay International Rose Valley in Sanya, at the southern tip of Hainan, which is building itself as an international tourist destination.
It is the spot President Xi Jinping visited some four years ago, where he donned a bamboo hat and posed for a photo with several women who work in the rose fields.
