On February 12, 2025, Haikou City, Hainan Province will hold a grand Lantern Festival fireworks party. This is the second time that Haikou City will hold a large-scale fireworks event after 13 years. The Paper learned that the fireworks party is from 20:40 to 21:20 on February 12, and a visual feast consisting of 3,000 large-scale drone performances and 20-minute fireworks performances will be presented.
This fireworks party combines intangible cultural heritage with modern technology. The fireworks performance team comes from Liuyang, Hunan, the "hometown of Chinese fireworks". Liuyang fireworks production skills are one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Highlights of the evening party include 3,000 large-scale drones presenting dynamic 3D three-dimensional patterns, "Flowers on the Sea" fireworks performance, exclusive high-altitude fireworks in Haikou, and the "Colorful Clouds" fireworks that debuted, bringing the audience an ultimate romantic visual experience.
In order to ensure the safety of road traffic during the fireworks party, the police will implement temporary traffic control on some areas and roads from 17:00 on February 12 to the end of the event. The controlled areas include the closed area north of Minsheng Road and east of Dujuan Road, the area west of Century Park Road, the Poly Central Coast area west of Bihai Avenue, the area south of Haidian Wu West Road, and the two-way control of Century Bridge.
To facilitate citizens' travel, Haikou City has set up motor vehicle and non-motor vehicle parking areas, and temporarily opened 9 free bus lines for Lantern Festival fireworks party, equipped with 160 vehicles, and the shift interval is 5 to 8 minutes. At the same time, the dispatch density of 21 regular routes passing through Wanluyuan will be increased on the same day, and the last shift time will be appropriately extended depending on the passenger flow.
Citizens and tourists can choose from multiple recommended viewing points, including public areas such as Sky Mountain, Huacai Haikou Bay Plaza, Yundong Library, Century Park, Wanlu Park, and other public areas, as well as high-rise areas along Binhai Avenue. Hotel areas such as InterContinental Hotel Huacai, Westin Hotel and other "fireworks rooms" and "fireworks dinner" are very popular.
In order to ensure the safety order of the fireworks in the sea and to ensure the safety of people's lives and property, the Haikou Agriculture and Rural Affairs Bureau issued an announcement on the evening of February 10 that during the Lantern Festival, all fishing boats are strictly prohibited from going to sea to watch fireworks or rent them to others to watch fireworks in nearby waters. Fisheries law enforcement departments will increase their efforts to patrol at sea and deal with fishing boats that go to sea illegally in accordance with the law. But The Paper noticed that there will be a dedicated cruise line at the fireworks evening, but you only need to buy tickets.
