According to Hai Nam, he had his own house quite early. At the age of 30, Hai Nam decided to give himself a penthouse apartment with a classy and luxurious space. Penthouse apartment Nam gave himself before the age of 30. The first floor is used as a living room and common spaces. The penthouse is located in an urban area for the rich. The initial price he received raw handover from the investor was about 14 billion VND. After that, he boldly spent 6 billion to renovate the apartment in accordance with his preferences, usage needs and aesthetic taste. Large living room with large sofa set. After nearly half a year of focusing on repairing, he officially moved in. He revealed, this is the 3rd apartment he owns. “The apartment near 30 is also much different from the house at 20 or 25, still young and modern, but much more “quiet”. As “older”, I prefer to stay at home rather than go to crowded places. So the criterion is that the house must be big enough to have space for the whole family to gather and gather with close friends,” Hai Nam shared. The first floor hangs a large portrait of the owner and displays the Bearbrick array on the TV cabinet. The total area of ​​the apartment including the first and second floors is 220m2. The first floor is designed as an open space, as a common living place. The living room is spacious with a large and long sofa for guests to comfortably sit and chat with the owner, enjoy music, sip a glass of wine, watch the city view when the lights are on. When gathering to watch a movie, everyone can lie down comfortably. Kitchen with dining table enough for 12 people to gather cozy on special occasions. Although not good at cooking, the owner likes the kitchen area. For him, the kitchen is the place to keep the fire for the whole house, when the kitchen is warm, the house is happy. He buys a full range of dishes to eat both European and Asian dishes when gathering with family and friends. Next to the common living space is an office with a sofa to rest and read. The owner spends the entire 2nd floor as a private place including the master bedroom, dressing room, extra bedroom for parents to sleep over and a worship room. In particular, in this apartment, Hainan displays a large Bearbrick collection. Bearbrick is a famous toy among the rich in the world, priced from several tens of millions to several hundred million. Even, many products are up to billions of Vietnamese dong. The owner of the apartment and 2 friends Bearbrick expensive metal. This toy was originally created as a gift for guests at the Character Convention 12 conference in Tokyo, Japan. After that, the toy received a lot of promotion from famous stars, so it became an icon in the world of toy collectors. As a result, Bearbrick is produced in many versions with different designs, themes, sizes, materials including synthetic resin, metal, wood, luminous plastic … All Bearbrick models are produced and released in limited quantities. Another sofa on the first floor, located next to the stairs. Wooden stairs, transparent glass handrail. Below is a reflector and a giant Bearbrick. Large sofas serve homeowners when sipping wine and watching movies. Working room with glass door frame has a panoramic view. Ceiling 4-season air conditioning system. There is also a medium-sized Bearbrick on display. The first floor bathroom is installed separately for dry and wet areas. The dry area has 2 washbasins with gold-plated faucets, 5-star standard. Hall leading to the 2nd floor. In the center of the lobby is a piano. A moment to find a little silence in the day of a young businessman. Changing room, displaying collections of brands and accessories. In the master bedroom, the owner does not place a TV, but designs a projector to be controlled via an app on a smartphone. Every time you watch, just turn on the machine, project it on the wall, add some snacks, and it becomes a mini cinema. Extra bedroom. Bathroom in master bedroom. Separate, spacious worship area.

The “we” that Ah Tao is talking about are gay men on the island, like him. With the aim of understanding the life of the LGBT community in Hainan, I asked Ah Tao to be my guide. Unlike big cities in China such as Beijing, Shanghai or Guangzhou, the LGBT community in the island located on the southern coast of the mainland 30 km is not really well received, has to live a closed life and hide its bias. sexual orientation towards society. Unlike in Beijing or Shanghai, the LGBT community in Hainan province still faces many prejudices and is not accepted by society. Photo: The Beijinger. Hide your identity 11 years ago, I spent 12 months learning Chinese in Hainan and interacting with the local LGBT community. From that experience, for the past 8 years, I have started researching the lives of gay, bisexual and transgender people in this low-economic and culturally low-value locality. In the past few years, the government has made a lot of efforts to promote tourism in Hainan, but there has not been the same level of investment in other coastal areas. Ah Tao led me out of the square, through an empty market, and into a dark alley. “When you go there, don’t mention homosexuality or heterosexuality,” he warned carefully. Most have to hide their identities to be able to integrate into the community and continue to lead normal lives. Photo: New York Post. I suddenly recalled in 2009, the first time my friends took me to the only gay bar in Haikou – the capital of Hainan province. It was nestled behind an abandoned hotel, hidden by another row of working hotels. Later, I found out that that is the common point of spaces for the LGBT community – discreet, out of sight. To outsiders, these areas are completely invisible, hard to find. But for people like Ah Tao, this is the only place to take off your mask and be true to yourself. “Happy or sad, I always go to these bars to relax. The LGBT community here doesn’t have that much space,” said Xiaomai, a 19-year-old gay man. However, such bars only exist in major cities on the island. In smaller towns, they can only meet and chat at teahouses, convenience stores and parks. The risk of being discovered, stigmatized, affecting honor, family and work is also greater. Therefore, Ah Tao told me not to mention a word related to “gay”. Following Ah Tao’s footsteps into a convenience store at an intersection in a dark alley, I saw three electric mahjong tables surrounded by many people, men and women of all kinds. Seeing Ah Tao, they turned to ask about love and marriage. “It looks like it, but the men sitting here are all gay,” Ah Tao whispered to me. Accordingly, because they want to participate in community activities, many gay people in Hainan accept to hide their identities and pretend to be a different person. The worry of “no wife, no children” “How do you have a wife and children that are so few these days?”, a woman playing mahjong turned to ask Ah Tao. In fact, gay men here often receive such curious questions about marriage. Family pressure, children are always present, reminding Ah Tao that he is living “no wife, no children”. Many people in the community fear that they will be forced to marry and have children according to the expectations of family and society. “I am happy to make friends, get to know many people like me. But what about the future? How should I face my family, how do I explain the fact that I am still unmarried at 20-30 years old?”, Xiaomai’s heart. Some gay people living in Hainan choose to have children through surrogacy, which helps relieve the pressure of marriage and the anxiety of loneliness in old age. Photo: The Guardian. In China, the traditional concept of family still has a profound influence in society. For men, they need to be responsible for getting married and having children at all costs. In addition, due to fear of old age without a caregiver, many gay men accept marriage. “I got married partly because of my parents, partly because I was afraid that I wouldn’t have someone to look after me in my old age,” said 24 year old Liang Zongwei, a gay man living in Haikou. Some individuals like Ah Long (36 years old), a factory owner in northeastern Hainan, choose to have children through surrogacy. However, not everyone has the financial means to do this. In big cities, social organizations are trying to change stereotypes and raise social awareness about the LGBT community. But with provinces and cities that have not yet received economic and cultural investment like Hainan, the presence of homosexuals has not been properly recognized. From the experience of making friends with Ah Tao and being exposed to LGBT culture in Hainan, I reflect more on life, wondering if having to hide my true self is really “living”.

According to Pentagon French speaker Mike Howard, fragments of the 5B Truong Chinh missile, with a length of more than 30 meters and a weight of 22 tons, is expected to fall back into the atmosphere “around May 9”, at the same time. added that the US Space Command is closely monitoring the missile’s trajectory. Using data from the US military, Space Track predicts fragments of the missile will fall between 1:44 a.m. and 4 a.m. on May 9 (international time). Space Track also noted that because it was impossible to determine the correct time of the fall, locating the falling point of the debris is very difficult, but confirmed that it will continuously update the missile wreck’s location through its website. Chinese Truong Chinh 5B missile. Photo: CNN “Risk is possible, there will be some damage but quite small, not insignificant, but the ability to affect people is extremely small” – astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell of the University Harvard (USA), stated. The European Space Monitoring and Monitoring Agency (EU SST) has predicted a “risk zone” includes “any part of the Earth’s surface, including almost all of the Americas, Africa and Australia. , parts in southern Asia (Japan) and Europe such as Spain, Portugal, Italy and Greece “. The extent of the debris’s influence is such a result of the rocket debris’s dizzying rate, even small effects during the fall can dramatically change its trajectory. . “We expect the debris to reappear sometime between May 8 and May 10,” said McDowell. However, as explained by Harvard astrophysicist, the oceans are still the safest place to bet for debris to land, as seas occupy 70% of the Earth’s surface area. China successfully launched the space station’s core module into space with the Truong Chinh 5B rocket, on April 29. Photo: REUTERS Earlier, on May 7, China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs confirmed that most of the debris from the missile would burn when it falls to Earth and is less likely to cause any harm, CNN said. Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Uong Van Ban said Beijing is very focused on bringing the rocket’s upper deck back into the atmosphere: “As far as I know, this missile uses a special design. Much of the rocket will be burned and destroyed in the return to atmosphere “. The Beijing government also criticized that the news that the missile unit had fallen out of control and could cause harm was exaggeration by the West. Chinese experts say the situation is nothing to worry about. Fragment of China’s Truong Chinh 5B missile is expected to hit Earth on May 9. Photo: CNN Previously, on April 29, China successfully launched the space station’s core module called Thien Hoa into space with the Truong Chinh 5B boosters from the Van Xuong Spacecraft Launch Center in Hainan Province. This is one of the steps for the country to complete its mission of setting up its own space station, a key effort in China’s plan to master space, probe the Moon, and even Mars. But instead of falling to a predetermined place in the sea like the rockets before, the central stage of the Truong Chinh 5B boosters began to rotate around the globe in a state of out-of-control, according to CNN. Dropping debris from Chinese missile launches to Earth is not uncommon in China. In May 2020, the core of the first Truong Chinh 5B rocket crashed on Ivory Coast, damaging a number of buildings, luckily causing no injuries.

People in Brazil are examining the debris believed to have belonged to a European spacecraft in 2014. Photo: Getty. Sea of ​​Japan (also known as East Sea) The phenomenon of debris falling from space falling to the ground and causing damage was first recorded in 1969. That year, Japanese diplomats informed the United Nations of an unknown object from the falling space. Down and collide with Japanese cargo ships moving off Siberia (Russia). The collision caused serious injuries to 5 crew members. Shortly after, Soviet ships appeared at that time looking for debris. Japanese officials said the debris was identified by experts as part of the Soviet spacecraft. However, this information was initially kept private by Tokyo because it did not want to create conflicts with Moscow, according to the report AP . State of the Northwest Territories, Canada The danger of an object from space became apparent in 1978, when Cosmos 954, a satellite powered by the atomic energy of the Soviet Union, fell to Earth. The incident caused radioactive debris to spread throughout the Northwest Territories, Alberta, and Canada’s Saskatchewan province. After the incident, the Canadian government organized a large-scale “Morning Light Campaign” to search for tiny pieces of radioactive material falling on the arctic tundra. The cost for this campaign is nearly 14 million CAD (equivalent to 11.5 million USD). A fragment of satellite Cosmos 954. Photo: United States Department of Energy. Canada demanded that the Soviet Union compensate at the time for CAD 6 million ($ 5 million), but Moscow ended up paying only half of that amount. State of West Australia, Australia In 1979, Skylab – the first space station of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) – crumbled while returning to Earth’s atmosphere. The incident caused many debris to fall throughout the farm town of Esperance in West Australia, Australia. The Skylab space station was photographed by the last crewman before falling apart on July 11, 1979. Photo: NASA. “It’s the best fireworks display you’ll ever see,” described Brendan Freeman, a retired farmer. ABC . The debris did not cause great damage, but for fun, the town authorities Esperance wrote a $ 400 fine letter to NASA for littering. NASA did not pay the fines, possibly out of fear of setting a negative precedent. By 2009, a DJ in the city of Barstow, California (USA) called to raise funds and bring fines to pay the town of Esperance. Lakeport, California, USA An early weekend in 1987, a retired aircraft mechanic living in a town near Mendocino National Forest, in northern California, heard gun-like noises outside the bedroom window. After searching, he discovered a scorched metal piece longer than 2 meters in the alley next to the house. Analysts at the US Air Force determined this object was most likely a piece of debris falling from a Soviet missile. This missile has previously been seen flying across the sky while being burned and dropped to Earth. “It’s interesting because things like that don’t happen around here very often,” said Maggie Pickle, the mechanic’s neighbor. AP . Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA Lottie Williams held up a piece of debris that fell on her shoulder from a US Delta II rocket in 1997. Photo: Tulsa World. One morning in 1997, Lottie Williams was walking with friends in Tulsa city park when he saw something like a comet across the sky. The object fell on Mrs. Williams’ shoulder, but the force of the impact was very light, almost insensitive. The object identified by the scientists was most likely a piece of the US Delta II rocket. Fragments are kept by Mrs. Williams as a souvenir. “I must be very lucky for the debris to be so light. It was one of the strangest things that ever happened to me, ”Mrs. Williams told NPR in the interview many years later. Eastern region of Texas and Louisiana, USA In 2003, the American space shuttle Columbia collapsed while returning to the atmosphere, killing seven astronauts on board. Where the wreckage of the space shuttle hit the ground, temporary memorials were built for the crew. Rural residents along the Texas-Louisiana border reported seeing debris from the ship fell into a water storage tank or through the roof of a dental office. Someone even tried to sell a piece of fragment on an eBay e-commerce site for $ 10,000. Finally, 84,000 pieces of debris from the ship in distress were collected after extensive searches in swamps, forests, and grasslands. These debris were used to rebuild the ship and identify the cause of the disaster. Ivory Coast In May 2020, another Chinese 5B Truong Chinh missile also crashed on Earth. The missile was initially thought to have crashed into the Pacific Ocean, but some people reported hearing ultrasonic explosions and seeing metal debris falling from the sky. This shows that some parts of the Truong Chinh 5B missile fell in the village of Mahounou, on the Ivory Coast. China’s Truong Chinh 5B missile launch in late April in Hainan province. Photo: Getty. However, there were no reports of human casualties following the incident. The discovery of tube fragments longer than 12 m also seems to help this area get more attention. Grant County, Washington State, USA The most recent cosmic waste incident happened just over a month ago, when a private aerospace company SpaceX rocket exploded over the Pacific Northwest. The explosion created a “light show,” which caused some at first to mistake it for a meteor shower, according to the report The Verge . A piece of equipment from the missile crashed on a farm in Washington state, leaving a mark more than 12 cm deep on the ground, The Verge reporting. A similar object was also discovered by fishermen off the coast of Oregon a few days later, but authorities have not confirmed whether this is debris from the SpaceX missile or not.

On the morning of May 9 (Beijing time), the China Manned Space Engineering Office (CMSEO) confirmed that the fragments of Long March 5B had fallen into the Indian Ocean near the Maldives, the rest was loaded. fire in the atmosphere. The Truong Chinh 5B missile carrying parts for the Chinese space station was launched in Hainan province on April 29. Photo: Reuters. “They are jealous of China’s progress” In addition to the confirmation of the missile falling into the sea, the Chinese media said that Western newspapers are exaggerating the incident, discrediting the country’s space exploration program. “Their hype and smear are in vain”, CNN citing a Chinese source, saying that American scientists are “acting against conscience” and “anti-intellectual”. “These people are jealous of the advancement of Chinese aerospace technology… Some of them are even using loud words to interfere with our future missile launch missions, with the goal of building stations. private universe “, this page says. Earlier, the director of the US Aerospace Agency (NASA) Bill Nelson criticized China after debris from the Long March 5B rocket fell into the Indian Ocean. “It is clear that China has not met the standard of responsible space waste,” said Nelson in a statement on May 9. Compared to Russia (formerly the Soviet Union) or the US, China is a latecomer in the space field. They launched their first satellite in 1970, 13 years behind the Soviet Union and 12 years behind the US. In recent times, the field of Chinese space exploration has been invested more and more strongly. They are the first country to send a probe into the dark of the Moon in 2019, before bringing some rock samples on the Moon back to Earth by the end of 2020. The reason China wants to build a space station On the US side, this country has taken action that China sees as “hostile”, to prevent its space mission. Since 1999, the United States has imposed a restriction on exports of satellite technology to China. In late 2011, the US Congress also passed laws restricting cooperation between NASA and China. That is why Chinese astronauts are not allowed to board the International Space Station (ISS), the only space station in orbit to be completed, operated by cooperation between the US and Russia, Europe, Japan and Canada. The Long March 5B is the largest space object to return uncontrollably to Earth in nearly three decades. Photo: ABC. That is the reason why China plans to build the Tiangong (Tian Cung) space station, which means “heavenly palace”. In late April, the Long March 5B was launched to bring the first module to the space station. But then, the rocket fell into a state of uncontrollability until it was gradually pulled down by Earth’s gravity. Although criticizing the West for “bluffing” the Long March 5B out of control, the Chinese media and experts have ignored the explanation of why the missile makes the world worried. According to the CNN , the Earth’s launch and landing phases of the missile can be predicted. When falling into orbit, manufacturers often equip controls to direct missiles into the sea or keep them in a “graveyard orbit”, which helps them hover in space for decades. This is the second incident related to the Truong Chinh 5B missile. Last year, a 12-meter debris of the missile crashed into a village on Cote d’Ivoire, damaging businesses and homes. Estimated to weigh more than 20 tons, the Long March 5B is the largest space object to return to Earth uncontrollably in nearly three decades. SpaceX’s test missile explodes again when it lands on the launch pad SpaceX’s Starship SN9 rocket landed and exploded on 2/2. This is the first phase prototype of a reusable rocket line that will help send people to Mars.

The 21-ton core of the Chinese Truong Chinh 5B missile was taken on the night of 5/5/2021. Photo: Project Virtual Telescope According to the Daily Mail, the Italy-based Virtual Telescope (VTP) project captured the core of the missile, which looks like a bright spot of light as it crashes through their Elena robot telescope. Chinese rockets have caught international attention throughout the week as debris of the 21-ton vehicle is expected to fly back to Earth uncontrolled over the weekend, with the risk of landing in areas with residents. According to Italian researchers, the Truong Chinh 5B missile has moved “extremely fast”, as it soared through a distance of about 700 km above the VTP’s telescope. The Space.com site said that Gianluca Masi, the Virtual Telescope project’s astronomer who took the photo, wrote in the photo description: “At the time of the photo shoot, the rocket core was far from the telescope. Ours is about 700 km, while the Sun is only a few degrees below the horizon, so the sky is extremely bright, making it difficult to take pictures. captured this giant fragment “- Masi wrote in the description of the photo. “This is another brilliant success, demonstrating the amazing ability of robotic vehicles to track such objects,” Mr. Masi affirmed. On April 29, China launched a 5B Truong Chinh missile that carries the main module of its own space station into the orbit of the Earth. This module, called Thien Ha, is 16.6 meters long. Watch the video of China launching a rocket carrying module of the Tianhe space station on April 29: Space agencies and astronomers around the world are now closely monitoring the 5B’s trajectory in the hope of being better prepared for the moment it falls back to Earth. The latest information shows that fragments of this giant rocket are expected to fall back to Earth on May 8 and the US government has warned they could fall into populated areas. US Department of Defense spokesman John Kirby revealed the intended date of return to Earth’s atmosphere, but said the exact timing of that event was currently unidentifiable. Mr. Kirby said the government at this time “does not have enough information to be able to formulate specific plans”. However, he asserted that if there was information, they would share it appropriately.
The US Space Command is currently monitoring the Chinese missile as carefully as possible and giving daily updates to its position on the Space Track website. The Truong Chinh 5B Y2 missile carrying the Thien Ha core module was launched from the Van Xuong launch pad in Hainan province, China on April 29. Photo: THX Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at Harvard University (USA) and a specialist in orbital tracking, notes that the core of Truong Chinh 5B is the heaviest object that has fallen out of control through the atmosphere in nearly three decades. century. Before breaking, this core had a weight of nearly 21 tons. The last time a heavier object fell out of control was 1991, when the 43-ton Soviet Salyut-7 space station crashed on Argentina. Mr. McDowell calculated that the core was about to fall to Earth 7 times heavier than the second floor of the Falcon 9 rocket, which burned in the sky of Seattle, about a month ago. If returned to the atmosphere at night, it could produce a similar light trail. Despite US Department of Defense concerns, many industry observers believe the situation is not to the point of causing panic. The risk of being hit by debris is extremely small, says analyst McDowell. Meanwhile, Mr. Song Zhongping – a Chinese aerospace expert – on May 5 said that the rocket fragments returned to Earth is completely normal. China launched the Truong Chinh 5B rocket in May 2020 (photo) to test a vehicle for a program to send people to the Moon. Photo: Daily Mail Wang Ya’nan – editor-in-chief of Aerospace Knowledge magazine – added that during the missile development, Chinese aerospace officials have carefully considered from the initial stage of missile design and selection. Select launch location, to launch status and flight trajectory. “Most of the debris will burn up during its return to Earth’s atmosphere,” Wang explained. Only a very small fraction can fall to the ground and is likely to fall into the ocean or areas far away from where humans are active. Since Chinese rockets are mainly made of lightweight materials, most will easily be burned during high-speed fall through the atmosphere. Besides, Truong Chinh rocket also uses environmentally friendly fuel, so once the parts fall into the ocean, it will not cause water pollution. According to Space, if there is debris damage, the United Nations Convention on Liability of the Outer Space Treaty states that the launching country “must bear full responsibility for damages. caused by their space objects on the Earth’s surface or to an aircraft, and are responsible for damage caused by its fault in space “. The only time this convention was invoked was in 1978, when a nuclear-powered Soviet satellite, Kosmos 954, spread radioactive debris across the Canadian Arctic, leading to a campaign. urgent cleaning and cost at least S $ 3 million in 1981 (equivalent to $ 7.5 million today).

On April 29, at the Van Xuong spacecraft launch center in Hainan province, China successfully launched the first module of the Tianhe space station with the Truong Chinh 5B rocket, marking an important step in the build the country’s own space station. However, instead of falling to a predetermined place in the sea like the previous rockets, the central stage of the Truong Chinh 5B boosters started spinning around the Earth in a low orbit in a state of out-of-control. With a weight of about 21 tons, 30m long and 5m wide, the remnants of the Truong Chinh 5B rocket are flying in orbit around the Earth every 90 minutes / rev, at a speed of 27,600 km / h at an altitude of over 300 kilometer. Since the end of last week until now, this remaining part has decreased altitude by nearly 80km. According to the observations of underground amateur astronomers, this missile is in a very unstable state. Some calculations show that the central floor of the Truong Chinh 5B missile will plunge into the atmosphere on May 8. When it crosses the Earth’s atmosphere, it could be burned, but it is likely that large pieces of the missile will remain and will fall scattered over an area of ​​160km wide. Worth mentioning, this is not the first time that China’s Truong Chinh 5B missile has fallen into a state of out-of-control during the biosphere. In May 2020, a similar incident happened. Beijing is expected to have at least 10 more similar launches, bringing all additional equipment into orbit, before completing the station by 2022. China’s Truong Chinh 5B missile was launched into orbit on April 29 at the Wenchang launch pad, southern China. . Prior to the US Space Command’s forecast that the 2021-035B Truong Chinh 5B (Long March 5B or Chang Zheng 5B) missile core, called 2021-035B, was capable of falling uncontrollably on Earth on the day. May 8-9, many people questioned: Will Russia or the US plan to use the missile to shoot the core of the Truong Chinh 5B missile, to save the planet’s citizens? On May 6, the US said it was tracking the object’s path, but had no plans to shoot it down. Cosmic garbage Australia currently holds the record as the country that contains the largest space waste in the world. In 1979, the 77-ton American SkyLab space station disintegrated in Western Australia, leaving the area around the coastal town of Esperance splashed by debris. Although no deaths or serious injuries have been reported from being hit by these cosmic debris, it is quite dangerous. Just a year before the fall of SkyLab, a Soviet remote sensing satellite, Cosmos 954, crashed into a barren area of ​​Canada’s Northwest Territory, spreading radioactive debris over several hundred square kilometers. As the Cold War was at its height, the nuclear sensitivity of the Cosmos 954 led to unfortunate delays in locating and cleaning the wreck. Who has to pay for cleaning? International law sets out a compensation regime that applies in many cases of damage on Earth, as well as when satellites collide in space. The 1972 conventions, a United Nations treaty, impose liability for the damage caused by space debris, which includes a regime of absolute liability as they fall to Earth like fragments. crumbs. In the case of Long March 5B, this would impose potential liability on China. The new treaty has only been invoked once before (for the Cosmos 954 incident) and therefore may not be considered a incentive. Of course, this legal framework only applies after the damage has occurred. In 1978, a Soviet nuclear-powered satellite crashed in northern Canada, resulting in a $ 3,000,000 fine for the tundra radioactive cleanup for Canada.

Riyue Bay, Hainan, China, a famous surfing destination.

One morning in mid-March, the sun covered the entire sea, and the waves pushed toward the beach. People wearing bikinis and holding surfboards of all colors walked towards the waves. The waves are rolling, some people are grabbing the waves to stand on the board, and some are galloping on the top of the waves.

A brown Beijing brand car followed the road along the coast towards the entrance of Sunac Sun Moon Bay. The owner from Beijing was stopped by the guard at the station and asked to report the license plate number to his homeowner consultant so that the homeowner consultant could apply for the passage of the car.

The security guard told the owner that at present Riyuewan implements strict access control, and the sales office is no longer open to the public. Only the staff and some villa owners who have already acquired the house can pass through, including prospective owners and others. It must be approved by superiors before it can pass.

Riyuewan implements strict access control. Picture source: Jiemian News

While waiting for passage, the owner communicated with people about the current situation of Riyue Bay on WeChat, “Yuedao is being demolished. It is said that they are in a lawsuit with related parties and want to return to the construction right.”

The follow-up direction of Riyue Bay has become one of the most concerned issues for prospective owners, which is directly related to the future residential experience and property value. Compared with the waves in Riyue Bay, Hainan’s environmental protection storm is longer and more powerful, and the demolition of Moon Island is a foregone conclusion.

This project, named Sunac Sunyue Bay, is Sunac’s masterpiece of entering Hainan. In 2015, Sunac flexed its muscles and successfully deployed multiple core cities in South China and Central China. In Hainan, Sunac acquired the Hainan project through the acquisition of a real estate subsidiary of Nanshan Group.

The business of Nanshan Group, a private enterprise in Shandong, covers industry, finance, aviation, real estate, education, tourism and other sectors. Its real estate platform Yantai Haiji Real Estate Co., Ltd. has developed a number of large-scale tourism and vacation complexes, such as Hainan Wanning Ridao and Yuedao, Qingdao Longdao and Fengdao.

At that time, Sunac acquired 50% of the shares of Hainan Wanning Hongji Real Estate Co., Ltd. and 50% of the shares of Nanshan (Hainan Wanning) Real Estate Co., Ltd. under Yantai Haiji, and established a subsidiary, Wanning Nanshan Sunac Industrial Co., Ltd., Responsible for project development.

Wanning Riyue Bay is a 3A-level scenic spot. According to the government’s plan, 26 billion yuan will be invested here to build a coastal tourist area and an international surfing base. The total planned land area of ​​the Bay project is about 34,500 mu, and the total construction area is about 4 million square meters.

There are two main parts of Sunac’s involvement in the trader-part of the land parcels and the Sunyue Island reclamation project. Riyue Artificial Island is the core landmark project of Riyue Bay. It covers an area of ​​1 million square meters and is formed by reclamation.

At that time, Zhu Hong, the person in charge of Sunac Riyue Bay project, said to the public, “We want to build Sunac Riyue Bay into a world-renowned tourism brand, not just a real estate project.”

After Sun Moon Bay officially entered Hainan with Riyue Bay, Sunac began to attach importance to the tourism and vacation market in order to increase its efforts in Hainan.

In August 2016, Hainan Sunac and Hangzhou Jinhan entered into an equity transfer framework agreement to acquire 50% of the equity and creditor’s rights of the target company to obtain the Boao Golden Bay project.

Boao Golden Bay is located between Boao and Tanmen in Hainan, adjacent to the permanent site of the Boao Forum for Asia. The project includes residential and commercial uses, with a total area of ​​approximately 1.6475 million square meters and a total saleable area of ​​approximately 1.6475 million square meters. It is the first Hainan project to contribute to Sunac.

Also in the same year, Sunac established the Hainan area, and in December released its 6 projects in Hainan, namely Riyue Bay, Boao Golden Bay, Mission Hills, Sunshine Town, Blue Cube and Nanyan Bay. Most of them are tourism real estate projects that Sunac had rarely operated before.

In the first few years when the most severe “environmental protection storm” and “purchase restrictions” swept Hainan, Sunac’s development in Hainan was in full swing.

According to the financial report, as the eighth deep-growing area, the Hainan market brought 12.65 billion yuan in sales to Sunac in 2017. Sunac used this to surpass some real estate companies that have been in business for many years and squeeze into the top five in Hainan’s sales that year.

In the first half of 2018, Sunac’s deployment of projects in Hainan further increased, reaching nearly 20. They were deployed in Sanya, Haikou, Chengmai, Ding’an, Qionghai, Wanning, Lingshui and other places, forming a trend of enclosing Hainan. At the end of 2018, Sunac’s land reserves in Hainan reached 3,883,200 square meters, and its saleable/leasable building area reached 4,241,800 square meters.

This is the brightest moment of Sunac’s deployment in Hainan. At the 2018 interim results meeting, Sunac’s boss Sun Hongbin was also very optimistic about the Hainan market. He said, “We are particularly optimistic about Hainan, because places like China have very few choices. Policies will be good with or without policies. Good policies will definitely be better. We hope that Hainan will have particularly good development.”

But the good times didn’t last long. The environmental protection storm that began at the end of 2017 has swept across the country and has a particularly far-reaching impact on Hainan. The Central Environmental Protection Supervision Team severely criticized Hainan for “the finances of coastal cities and counties are overly dependent on real estate, and the situation is serious for the important land and the coastal land. A large number of real estate and tourism real estate are concentrated on the beautiful coastal line, which is very important to the marine ecology and the natural scenery of the coastline. “Causing damage” and other issues, and put forward opinions on environmental protection issues of many large-scale reclamation projects in Hainan, and gradually gave suggestions on rectification and punishment.

These projects are all hot star projects in the past, such as Ruyi Island in Haikou City, Southern Pearl, Phoenix Island in Sanya City, Haihua Island in Danzhou City, and Riyue Bay in Wanning City.

The environmental storm has put Hainan’s real estate on fire. Hainan has to get rid of its dependence on the real estate economy and seek a balanced development of ecological and economic construction. In 2018, Hainan issued the most stringent purchase restriction new policy in its history, and implemented strict controls on real estate. The property market in Hainan Island is frozen, “migratory birds” cannot fly in, and all real estate companies in Hainan are affected. They have begun to shrink the Hainan front, and Sunac is no exception.

The most intuitive manifestation is that Sunac abolished the Hainan region in October 2019 and merged with the Guangzhou-Shenzhen region to form the South China region. The new regional president is Huang Shuping, the former president of the Guangzhou-Shenzhen region, and Zhong Liansheng, the general manager of the Hainan region, was transferred. from.

It took about three years from the establishment of Sunac Hainan area to the merger. Under the combined effect of internal and external factors, Sunac’s new investment in Hainan has since decreased, and the corresponding land reserves have also declined year by year.

As of the end of 2020, among Sunac’s 258 million square meters of land bank, Hainan has a total area of ​​only 1,967,900 square meters, with a saleable and leaseable building area of ​​3,448,700 square meters. Compared with the peak in 2018, land reserves have fallen by nearly 50%.

In the last round of the most stringent purchase restrictions and environmental protection storm in history, Sunac, the Riyue Bay project was hit hard.

Hainan Wanning Riyue Bay Comprehensive Tourism Resort is a key project in Hainan, including the benchmarking sun and moon artificial island, and the total reclaimed area of ​​the project is 97 hectares. The sea area used for land reclamation and land reclamation on Rishima is about 48 hectares, the sea area for land reclamation and land reclamation on Tsukishima is about 493,000 square meters, and the land area formed by Tsukishima is about 435,000 square meters.

Photo source: Demonstration report on the use of the sea area of ​​the temporary construction temporary bridge project of Wanning Yuedao Project

According to public information from the Wanning Municipal Government, the Yuedaowei reclamation project started construction at the end of 2013, and the steel bridge behind Yuedao was completed in December 2013 (it was demolished on December 6, 2018).

In 2015, without the approval of the marine environmental impact report, Yuedao started construction, which intensified the erosion of 1.7 kilometers of beaches on its southwest side. The erosion reached 22 meters at its widest point, which affected the provincial Qingpilin Nature Reserve. Cause a certain impact.

In 2016, Yuedao started the cofferdam. As of February 27, 2017, when the Hainan Provincial Department of Oceans and Fisheries ordered its construction unit to stop construction, the external cofferdam of the Yuedao Reclamation Project has been fully formed. Moreover, Yuedao did not actually stop illegal reclamation until the inspector was stationed. A large area of ​​siltation has occurred on the surrounding beaches and island-connected sand dams have been formed, which has greatly damaged the natural features of the ocean.

Yuedao Reclamation and Cofferdam Picture Source: Wanning Yuedao Project Demolition Project Temporary Construction Temporary Bridge Project Sea Area Use Demonstration Report

On October 19, 2020, the Hainan Provincial People’s Government website announced the “Rectification Plan for the Implementation of the Inspection Report of the Third Central Ecological and Environmental Protection Supervision Team in Hainan Province” (hereinafter referred to as the “Plan”), proposing that the nine major encirclement and reclamation projects will be carried out. Project classification and disposal.

Regarding the renovation of Riyue Island, the “Plan” requires that by the end of 2020, the implementation plan for the demolition of the Yuedao project and the ecological environment assessment report should be prepared, and the demolition process, demolition material disposal, demolition construction period and other contents should be clarified, and expert review should be organized. Before the end of February 2021, the sea area use right of the Yuedao Project shall be withdrawn in accordance with the law, and the sea area use right certificate shall be cancelled. According to the law, the owner unit of the Yuedao project is ordered to demolish within a time limit in accordance with the implementation plan of the demolition project, and the Yuedao project will be demolished before the end of May 2022.

Jiemian News visited Riyue Bay in mid-March and found that the entrance to Moon Island was also banned, and the blue background and white characters all showed the determination of ecological protection-“Green water and green mountains are the golden mountains and silver mountains, fully implement environmental protection policies, and strengthen the ecological environment. protection”.

Entering the interior of the project through the cross-sea bridge, you can see that the bridge between Ridao and Yuedao has stopped abruptly in the sea. Excavators are digging through the ground and cofferdam of Yuedao, and Yuedao has begun to be demolished. An internal staff member of the project told Jiemian News that the demolition work started last week.

Image source of the junction of Ridao and Yuedao: Jiemian News

Moon Island is being demolished Image source: Jiemian News

In terms of input and output, there is undoubtedly a loss in the construction of the Riyuewan project. According to a previous report by China Business News, the total investment on the island is between 4 billion and 5 billion yuan, and nearly 1 billion yuan has been invested in the Yuedao project. But for this entire project, Sunac only sold the first and second phases of the island, and the return of funds was obviously not enough to cover the investment.

According to public information, Sunac delisted 9 plots of Ridao in 2015 for 1.328 billion yuan, with a total of 344,200 square meters, and planned a total of five phases of residential and island business districts.

The Riyuewan project opened in March 2017. The average price of high-rise apartments in the first phase of Ridao was 23,000 per square meter, and the average price of sky villas was 28,000 per square meter. After September 2017, the average price of the second-phase apartment is about 25,000/sqm, and the sea-view villa is 16-18 million/set. According to Sunac’s 2017 financial report, this project contributed 3.17 billion yuan in sales to Sunac that year.

An interview with Jiemian News found that the business district in the heart of Ridao Island has been built, but the investment promotion work has not been completed, and only a few merchants have settled in. In terms of residential housing, the remaining two-bedroom and three-bedroom houses in Phase II are sold in the form of commercial apartments, some buildings in Phase III are under construction, and Phase IV and Phase V have not yet been planned. The houses sold in the first and second phases are in the state of overdue delivery.

Image source of Nishima Island Center Business District: Jiemian News

An owner told Jiemian News that some villas have been delivered in the first and second phases, and the rest will be delivered by the end of June this year.

The Wanning Municipal Government’s “Announcement on the Implementation of the Rectification and Rectification Tasks of the National Marine Inspectorate (Serial No. 78)” stated that the type of sea used and approved for the Wanning Riyue Bay Sun Island Project is for tourism and entertainment, and clearly requires it “It is forbidden to reclaim land to develop ordinary real estate projects” However, after the completion and acceptance of the project, the Wanning Municipal Government changed the use of 5.6 hectares of reclamation for tourism for real estate construction.

At the same time, the “Publicity” pointed out that for the part of the built residential buildings on the island of Japan, the current project construction unit has signed a house trusteeship management agreement with Hainan Kaisheng Real Estate Co., Ltd., and Hainan Kaisheng Real Estate Co., Ltd. will carry out the construction of the completed residential products. Entrusted operation and management, changing residential products into quasi-operating products.

Quasi-operating products refer to the sale of commercial apartments to avoid the impact of purchase restrictions.

Regarding the rectification of the 3# residential building project that has been approved and not built on Ridao, the “Publicity” pointed out that the Municipal Assets Planning Bureau is going through the above-mentioned residential land use change procedures, and the modification plan for the single building of the 03 building on the 03 plot has not passed the expert review. .

With the beginning of the demolition of Moon Island and the change in the nature of the subsequent real estate projects on Ri Island, it is difficult for the Riyue Bay Project to resume its previous sales conditions, and the value of the properties sold will also be greatly reduced.

Compared with other developers who have been impacted by the environmental storm, the impact on Sunac is obviously greater. Danzhou Haihua Island, which was also required to rectify in 2017, paid the fines before the end of 2020. More than 30 commercial houses did not get the pre-sale certificates and were changed to self-owned. The rectification work has been basically completed.

At present, Haihua Island has sold 60,000 homes and is still launching new houses, with the average price rising to 20,000 yuan per square meter. For Evergrande, this super-large artificial tourist island has now started its trial operation after rectification, and will officially open its doors this year.

Vanke, the leading real estate company, has only Forest City and Maritime Metropolis on sale in Sanya, and Maritime Metropolis is close to the liquidation stage. However, Country Garden still has a large number of projects on sale in Hainan. Because they are far away from the coastline, they have not been affected by environmental storms. Currently, they are selling such projects as Country Garden Poly House, Country Garden Maritime Metropolis, Country Garden Xinglong Lakeside in Sanya Central CBD.

With inventory digestion and the Hainan land market shifting to the industrial and residential market, compared with Sunac’s passive digestion of real estate inventory, Vanke and Country Garden cater to the new direction of Hainan and have begun to shift to residential projects and commercial and industrial projects.

For example, in Sanya, in the past year, there were 47 land sales in Sanya, with a total transaction area of ​​1.461 million square meters and a total transaction volume of 14.77 billion yuan. Among them, the total land area for commercial use land accounted for the highest proportion, reaching 49.1%. Residential land accounted for 23%. The 7 parcels of land sold were all residential projects. Vanke took 2 cases and Country Garden took 1 case.

For Sunac, Riyuewan, the well-known travel brand dream they wanted to build at the beginning, has been impossible to realize, and what remains will be just an incompletely planned project that runs counter to the original idea.