China's southernmost Hainan province has maintained its focus on sound ecological development as it establishes a national ecological civilization demonstration zone and a free trade port that is set to become globally influential by the middle of the century, according to officials from the provincial government.
Two new offshore duty-free shops have been approved to open in Haikou, the capital of South China's island province of Hainan, raising the number of duty-free shops in the province to twelve, Economic Information Daily reported on Thursday.
Hainan is ramping up efforts to introduce independent island-wide customs clearance operations by the end of 2025.
Thanks to the integrated development strategy that Danzhou and Yangpu implemented at the beginning of this year, Yangpu Economic Development Zone in Danzhou has achieved rapid economic growth in the first three quarters of 2022.
All the delegates from South China's Hainan province who are attending the 20th CPC National Congress have been studying and discussing the report delivered to the congress recently.
In the first three quarters of the year, Hainan added an average of 682 new enterprises per day.
The Communist Party of China has vowed to comprehensively advance national rejuvenation through a Chinese path to modernization, a central task the Party laid out for the next five years and beyond at the 20th CPC National Congress, which opened in Beijing on Sunday.
