Haikou Meilan International Airport Co., Ltd. (Chinese: 海口美兰国际机场有限责任公司) was incorporated on 25 August 1998 by a consortium of Civil Aviation Administration of China (50%), Hainan Airlines (33.4%) China National Aviation Fuel Group (8.3%) and Hainan International Trust Investment Corporation (8.3%).

[3][4] In 2000, HNA Group, an associate company of Hainan Airlines, became the controlling shareholder of the airport developer.

[5] The company listed some of the assets to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong as Hainan Meilan Airport (now known as HNA Infrastructure) in 2002.

In December 2016, the holding company decided to inject the runway of phase 1 to its listed subsidiary HNA Infrastructure in an all-share deal.

[6] In August 2017, the company received a warning from China Securities Regulatory Commission regarding the incorrect information that was published.