Skydiving tourism launched in south China's Hainan

A skydiving project was launched on Monday in Wanning City of south China's Hainan Province, as part of the city's efforts to improve its tourism industry.

Four skydiving masters made a fixed-point skydiving performance at the launch ceremony, showing their excellent skills in the entire process including jumping off the plane, opening the parachute, gliding and rolling in the air and landing at the predetermined site.

To have a skydiving experience, a tourist needs to get aboard a Pilatus PC-6 Porter, a single-engined short takeoff and landing utility aircraft, which can carry three tourists and six instructors at one time. The plane sets off at a local airport and take the skydivers to 4,000 meters in the air. The tourists, each accompanied by an instructor, can experience the excitement of free fall at a speed of 200 km per hour.

"The skydivers open their parachutes at the height of about 1,800 meters in the air, after one minute of free fall, which is very exciting for the tourists. So this tandem skydiving is currently one of the extreme sports in China," said Zhang Nan , chief instructor of the skydiving project.

The common height of skydiving is 700 to 3,000 meters, while that in Wanning is 4,000 meters.

In addition to the thrilling free fall, tourists can also enjoy the amazing natural views of the city while flying in the air, so many young tourists have been attracted to the project.

"Most of our consumers are tourists from other provinces, of whom the majority are female and of course young people. Female tourists account for 70 percent of the consumers," said Cheng Dan, manager of the project.