Tunchang County

Tunchang County
屯昌县
—  County-level city  —
Tunchang County
Location in Hainan
Tunchang County
Location in China
Coordinates:
Country China
Province Hainan
Population (1999)
 • Total 250,059
Time zone China standard time (UTC+8)

Tunchang County is an administrative district in Hainan, the People's Republic of China. It is one of four counties of Hainan. Its postal code is 571600, and in 1999 its population was 250,059 people.

There are four main attractions in this county: The Muse Lake, The Standard Model Deer Farm, Shi Xia Hairui Ancestral Home and the Wolong Mountain.

In 1983, a company from Guangxi Province, southern China, moved to Tunchang and started raising geoemydid turtles on a farm.[1] They have since moved to a place near Sanya, which is closer to the ocean.

See also

References

  1. ^ http://www.cites.org/eng/cop/12/prop/E12-P22.pdf , page 15. Their source, with details and photos, is: Shi, Haitao; Parham, James Ford (2000), "Preliminary Observations of a Large Turtle Farm in Hainan Province, People's Republic of China", Turtle and Tortoise Newsletter 3: 4–6, http://www.chelonian.org/ttn/archives/ttn3/pp4-6.shtml