Chengmai activity map
Chengmai County (Chinese: 澄迈县; pinyin: Chéngmài Xiàn) is an administrative district in Hainan, the People's Republic of China. It is one of 4 counties of Hainan. Its postal code is 571900, and in 2002 its population was 490,800 people."Chengmai County official website". Chengmai County People's Government. 2002.
Chengmai Located in northwest Hainan, it is 56 km wide (east to west) and 70 km long (north to south). It has a total land area of 2067.6 km². Climate-wise, it is tropical with ample sunshine and moderate rainfall all year round; on average, the county receives 2060.5 hours of sunshine and 1756 mm of rain each year. The average annual temperature is 23.7 °C.
The main industry is mining, with more than ten resources available within the county including quartz, stone, limestone, crystals, gold, silver, peat, zinc, aluminium, iron ore, kaolin, and manganese. Over 5 billion tonnes of quartz are still unmined in the county, with an average grade of 99.5% silicon. There are also nearly 11 million tonnes of limestone remaining in addition to crystal deposits 5.5 km long and 3 km wide and around 80,000,000 tonnes of kaolin.
