Population
The island's civilian population generally consists of a small number of long-term fishermen settlements maintained by a fisherman's village committee, and a larger number of short-term fishermen that generally pass-by the island, in addition to small numbers of government workers and tourists.
Police officers and soldiers stationed on the island change shifts every two years, and civilian employees change shifts every six months.
Read more about this topic: Woody Island (South China Sea)
Famous quotes containing the word population:
“It was a time of madness, the sort of mad-hysteria that always presages war. There seems to be nothing left but war—when any population in any sort of a nation gets violently angry, civilization falls down and religion forsakes its hold on the consciences of human kind in such times of public madness.”
—Rebecca Latimer Felton (1835–1930)