The coral reefs along the southwest coast of Leizhou Peninsula near the west mouth of Qiongzhou Strait, the only fringing reefs along the continental coast in China, have been forming through the transgression since the beginning of middle Holocene.

Monsoon climatic record of oxygen and carbon isotopic data from Porites lutea in Shalao fringing reef, Hainan Island;

Preliminary stuay of distribution of fringing reef at Qinglan Bay and eastern coast, Hainan Island;