Abstract: Investigations were carried out on ecological compensation at key ecological functional areas, forest, river basin, ocean, cultivated land and etc.in Hainan province from 2008 to 2018.The result demonstrated that the compensation land and amount had expanded, the ecosystem service function had improved, and it had good ecological protection results.However, there were challenges such as imperfect system of ecological compensation system, insufficient basic support system, few sources offund and insufficient response with other relevant policies.Countermeasures were put forwarded like coordinated development of ecological compensation system in Hainan with National and provincial policies and strategies, establishment of ecological compensation mechanism of Hainan as a whole, strengthening researches and performance assessment of ecological compensation, building diversified and market compensation mechanism .