Fenjiezhou Island

A Lingshui island site for repeated coral-transplant activities, followed in one Hainan Daily report through diver Tian Sihui and her daughter returning to the seedlings they planted.

A 2025 Hainan Daily report follows diver Tian Sihui and her daughter at Fenjiezhou Island. The two returned to a section where they had transplanted coral seedlings from a nursery onto an artificial reef the year before. Tian said the coral had grown enough to push away the identifying number tags they had left. Their return marks a family’s continuing connection to the restoration work; the programme’s longer history and research partnerships are attributed in the report to a resort executive. The same article attributes the programme’s longer history and research partnerships to a resort executive.

The green island of Fenjiezhou rises across the bay, with palms and shoreline in the foreground. — Fenjiezhou Island viewed across the bay in a photograph dated 12 February 2013; this view does not document underwater coral conditions.

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The Coral Garden That Lost Its Number Tags

Diver Tian Sihui returned with her daughter to coral planted the year before; the seedlings had grown enough to push away the number tags they had left.

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Fenjiezhou Island viewed across the bay in a photograph dated 12 February 2013; this view does not document underwater coral conditions.Zhangmoon618 · CC BY-SA 3.0 Photo source ↗ Rights information ↗ Retained source: Wikimedia standard 1280-pixel thumbnail; upstream full-size original was not downloaded. WebP copies were scaled without enlargement.