Introduce
The Xisha Islands are about 180 sea miles southeast of Hainan Island, form the territory southernmost of China with Dongsha, middle sand, the Nansha Islands.
The Xisha Islands, spread from the Northeast to the southwest, 250 -km-long, in the sea area about 150 kilometers wide, made up of 45 island, continent, reef, sandy beach. The intersection of the Xisha Islands and island, the intersection of in the east and the intersection of Germany and archipelago, made up of 7 islands such as Kitajima, stone island and Yongxing island; For Yongle in in the west for archipelago,from gold and silver, in build, coral make up. The Xisha Islands are located to the south of Tropic of Cancer, the rainfall is plentiful, the annual change of water temperature of the surrounding waters in the island is little. These superior natural conditions have formed the peculiar view of the Xisha Islands. Mount the island of Yongxing of the first largest island of the Xisha Islands, like coming into tropical Botanical Garden. The tropical plant there grows thickly, luxuriant four seasons.
The area within sand dyke on the roundabout is growing in order to avoid the arbor forest made up of the frostwork in vain, it is the higher to lean against the centre area plants of the island, close to the coast, the shorter the plant is. On the peripheral sand dyke on the island, it was tropical arbors such as the general term for paulownia, phoenix tree and tung tree of coast and general term for paulownia, phoenix tree and tung tree of grass sea,etc. and bush that grew. 40 multi-type of birds that perching on the Xisha Islands, the common one is booby, dark tern, black pillow tern, tern of very beginning of big phoenix and dark reason township eyes,etc.. In whole upper strata and their sky of woods, sea hundreds and thousands of bird wheel to hover all day, a thousand chirp Wan twiter, have the wonder of one s own, called \ usually Paradise \ of the bird . What is interesting is a booby, it will navigate in the sea for the fishing boat, the fisherman concentrates and seeks and eat the direction according to the booby in the daytime, cast net to fish before steering a ship and setting sail, follow the route that they fly back at dusk, the nearby island berthes to sail for the fishing boat from the boundless and indistinct sea. The fishmen call booby The navigation bird .
The Xisha Islands are the main tropical fishing ground of China, there are coral fish and ocean more than 400 kinds fish there, it is the important fishing ground to catch tuna, Spanish mackerel, snapper, skipjack s fish, freestyle player, shark, roach. The marine product mainly has dozens of kinds such as green turtle, sea cucumber, pearl, shellfish, abalone, fishing algae. The arris skin tortoise of famous and more precious king with the green turtle, the plum blossom of the king of the sea cucumber is joined, the most famous pearl in world -More than ten kinds such as south pearl, treasure, Chinese unicorn. With the constant development of the Sea-Air-Land traffic, hopes of visiting scene of South China Sea Islands of people will be realized.