Where is Pingtan Island in Fujian?

Pingtan Island is located in Pingtan County, Fuzhou City, Fujian Province.

Haitan Island, also known as Pingtan Island, is also known as Seamount. As the largest island in Fujian Province, it is the closest island to Taiwan Province among the top ten islands in China. It is 29 kilometers long from north to south, narrow from east to west and wide 19 kilometers. The highest peak on the island-Junshan is inserted into Yunfeng, with an altitude of 434.6 meters.

Pingtan island

Haitan Island is the largest island in Fujian Province. The island is an island connected by islands. Located in the southeast of Fuzhou, it is adjacent to the Taiwan Province Strait in the east and faces Changle and Fuqing across Haitan Strait in the west. It is 30 kilometers long from north to south and 19 kilometers wide from east to west, with an area of 274.33 square kilometers. The terrain is high in the south and low in the north.

The landform types are mainly hills, followed by plains and terraces. Junshan, the highest point, is 438.7 meters above sea level. It belongs to the south subtropical maritime monsoon climate, characterized by long summer and short winter, less wind and heavy rain and strong evaporation.

geologic structure

Haitandao area, the geological structure is mainly fault structure, belonging to Cathaysian structural system. In terms of regional structure, Pingtan is located in the metamorphic belt along the southeast coast of Fujian on the east side of Wuyi-Dai Yun composite uplift belt, and adjacent to the Taiwan Province Strait subsidence belt on the east.

Through the processing of satellite remote sensing information, it is considered that the geological structure background of Pingtan belongs to Pingtan-Dongshan thrust belt, and its basement is composed of pre-Devonian metamorphic rocks and Indosinian-early Yanshan structural layers. From early to late Yanshan, it was transformed by large-scale tectonic-magmatic activities, forming a volcanic structure and fault structure pattern dominated by late Yanshan, and becoming a relatively complete structural block dominated by granite.