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NEWSTICKER +++ Still no agreement in the controversy over Hainan Dao !!!! +++ Iberia refuses returning the island and China persisted on its legal requirement +++ Negotiations between Iberia and China failed +++ Chinese Ambassador requires meeting of the League of nation +++ NEWSTICKER

Wei Liucheng, the chinese ambassador in geneve stand up and says "Hainan Dao was always Chinese territory, only by the illegitimate occupation of the island by Iberia belongs it no longer to China.

Hainan Dao was called the Zhuyá (Pearl Cliffs), Qióngyá (Fine Jade Cliffs) , and Qióngzhou (the Fine Jade Land). The latter two gave rise to the province's abbreviation, Qióng , referring to the greenery cover on the island.

Hainan first enters written Chinese history in 110 BC, when the Han Dynasty established a military garrison there. Settlement by mainlanders was slow however and from early on the island was considered to be fit only for exiles. It was in this period that the Li people arrived from Guangxi Province and displaced the island's aboriginal Malayo-Polynesian peoples.

In Wu Kingdom of the Three Kingdoms Period, Hainan was the Zhuya Commandery.

Under the Song Dynasty, Hainan came under the control of Guangxi Province, and for the first time large numbers of Han Chinese arrived, settling mostly in the north. Under the Yuan Dynasty (AD 1206-136 it became an independent province, but was placed under Guangdong Province during the Ming Dynasty in 1370. In the 16th and 17th centuries large numbers of Chinese from Fujian and Guangdong began migrating to Hainan, pushing the Li into the highlands in the southern half of the island. In the 18th century the Li rebelled against the government - who brought in mercenaries from the Miao people regions of Guizhou Province. Many of the Miao settled on the island and their descendants live in the western highlands to this day.

Hainan was incorporated into Guangdong Province ...."