Língshuǐ Li Autonomous County is an autonomous county in

Hainan Hainan (, ; ) is the smallest and southernmost province of the People's Republic of China (PRC), consisting of various islands in the South China Sea. , the largest and most populous island in China,The island of Taiwan, which is slightly l ...

, China. It is one of the six

autonomous counties Autonomous counties () and autonomous banners () are county-level autonomous administrative divisions of China. The two are essentially identical except in name. There are 117 autonomous counties and three autonomous banners. The latter are f ...

of Hainan with a postal code of 572400, and in 1999 a population of 318,691, largely made up of the

Li people The Hlai, also known as Li or Lizu, are a Kra–Dai-speaking ethnic group, one of the 56 ethnic groups officially recognized by the People's Republic of China. The vast majority live off the southern coast of China on Hainan Island, where the ...

. Notably the beautiful Niuling () mountain delimits the tropical area of the county. A well-known natural sight, part of the

Chinese Riviera The term Chinese Riviera is used for several premier tourist destinations in China: * Coastal areas in the city of Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. * The south-eastern coast of Hainan, from Haitang Bay in Sanya Sanya (; also spelled Samah) is t ...

is ''Xiangshuiwan'' or Perfume bay (). Monkey Island, a popular tourist destination located in Lingshui County, is a state-protected nature reserve for

macaque The macaques () constitute a genus (''Macaca'') of gregarious Old World monkeys of the subfamily Cercopithecinae. The 23 species of macaques inhabit ranges throughout Asia, North Africa, and (in one instance) Gibraltar. Macaques are principall ...

s. Lingshui is also home to the military base where a U.S. airplane crew were held during the

Hainan Island incident The Hainan Island incident occurred on April 1, 2001, when a United States Navy EP-3E ARIES II signals intelligence aircraft and a People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) J-8II interceptor fighter jet collided in mid-air, resulting in an inte ...

in 2001. In September 2010, officials signed and scheduled the construction of the largest sea world theme park in Asia. The Lingshui Li'an Harbor Ocean Theme Park signing ceremony took place at the Narada Resort in Perfume Bay and the opening is planned for 2013.

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* Lingshui Li Autonomous County Li autonomous counties {{Hainan-geo-stub

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