China’s small fishing town feeling the pulse of free trade port project

Aerial photo shows Mulan Bay of Wenchang, south China's Hainan Province, April 28, 2020. (Xinhua/Guo Cheng)

HAIKOU: Fisherwoman Yang Jianling watches the tide rise and ebb, and she knows the perfect time for a good catch from the sea.

At the age of 47, she has seldom left the seashore, where she grew up watching her parents anchor or sail, except for trucking buckets of bream and croakers to fish markets or a few necessary trips away from home.