On July 14, 100 days before start of 2016 Tour of Hainan, the event organization committee officially announced the routes for this tour at Haikou. With approval from UCI, this session of Tour of Hainan will be held for 9 days on October 22-30 at Hainan. Wanning Xinglong Resort will serve as both the start and end point. The whole tour will contain 9 stages, covering 1512 kilometers in total and passing 18 cities and counties in Hainan.

      Starting from Wanning Xinglong Resort, the tour will generally follow an anticlockwise direction on Hainan Island, and contain the following nine stages:

      Among the nine stages of this tour, 2 are on flat routes, 4 are on hills, and 3 are on mountainous terrain. They are generally arranged with an ascending order of difficulty, i.e. from flat to mountainous areas. The whole tour contains 15 sprint points and 15 climbing points, including 2 Level 1 climbing points, 4 Level 2 climbing points, 5 Level 3 climbing points, and 4 Level 4 climbing points. the "Queen Stage" will still be the eighth stage, though the most difficult part will change from Atuo Ridge in Wuzhi Mountain to Diaoluo Maintain in Sanya - Qiongzhong stage. According to data provided by the organization committee, the total climbing length in Diaoluo Mountain will be 56.4 kilometers, and this part will contain 5 climbing points (1 Level 1 points, 2 Level 2 points, and 2 Level 3 points), thus providing the highest number of climbing points in a single stage ever in the history of Tour of Hainan.

      The tour routes were selected in such a way to fully exhibit beauty of Hainan. In addition to following competition rules and race standards, the organization committee carefully chose the routes by including multiple distinctive sightseeing roads with Hainan styles such as the tourism highway from Wanning Shimeiwan to Dahuajiao, the route from Haikou Binjiang Road to Coastal Avenue, and Changjiang Qiziwan tourism road. A number of characteristic scenic spots are also distributed along the tour routes, including Xinglong Resort, Wuzhi Mountain, Wanquan River, Haitang Bay, Meilang Sister Tower, Diaoluo Mountain, Yanuoda, and Betelnut Valley. Such arrangements achieve a perfect combination of unique coastal views, mysterious rain forest, South China Sea scenes, and Li and Miao minority culture with the sport event. In 2016 Tour of Hainan, through live coverage by CCTV, the whole world will again have a taste of the charm of Hainan, a resort paradise, together with the cyclists.

Hainan Island International Road Bicycle Tour (or Tour of Hainan in short) was launched in 2006 jointly by General Administration of Sport of China and Hainan government. It is one of the major international sport events explicitly defined in Suggestions by the State Council on Promoting the Construction and Development of Hainan International Tourism Island and developed by Hainan Party Committee and Hainan government with great efforts. After ten years of successful operation, it has become a global 2.HC race and a top level brand of road bicycle race across Asia. This tour attracts the highest number of world top professional cyclists among all bicycle races in China. It's also the first Chinese brand of road cycling race that has been completely live broadcast by CCTV. This event, thanks to its professional organization, innovative route design, high competition level, and perfect logistics services, has greatly driven development of bicycle sport in China or even Asia, and attracted attention from professional cyclists and media from across the globe. It has therefore become an important portal and hallmark for promoting Hainan as an international tourism island to the whole world.