China News Service, Xiamen, September 9 (Zheng Jiangluo) "From July 1 to August 31, the tax-free sales of outlying islands in Hainan exceeded 6.4 billion yuan (RMB, the same below). , A year-on-year increase of 2.5 times, and the average daily sales exceeded 100 million yuan.” At the 2020 Xiamen International Investment and Trade Fair and Silk Road Investment Conference (referred to as the “Xiamen Fair”), Shen Danyang, Vice Governor of Hainan Province, disclosed such a group digital.

　　Hainan was unveiled at this Xiamen Fair, specifically hosting a Hainan Free Trade Port Policy Promotion Conference, extending an olive branch to domestic and foreign merchants.

With the introduction of the "hard core" policy for the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port, the "magnetic field" effect of Hainan's opening up has been continuously released.

　　Now, in the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pioneer Zone, the Boao International Diabetes Center of the University of Edinburgh has started its trial operation; in Wenchang International Aerospace City, as the "Tianwen No. 1" soars into the sky, a number of major aerospace industry projects are expected to accelerate their implementation; In the central business district of Sanya, more than 10 yacht cruise companies, including Sanya World Cruises Co., Ltd., have settled in... Under the attraction of zero-tariff and low-tax policies, domestic and foreign companies have rushed to Hainan.

　　On June 1 this year, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China and the State Council formally issued the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port."

At present, preferential tax policies such as 15% corporate income tax for encouraged enterprises and exemption of the actual tax burden of high-end talents and talents in short supply of more than 15% have been implemented throughout the island.

　　Shen Danyang said that the total number of entities in the Hainan market has now exceeded 1 million. The number of newly registered entities increased by 62% year-on-year, and the number of foreign-funded enterprises increased by 78% year-on-year; the actual use of foreign capital has doubled in 2018 and 2019 for two consecutive years. , The year-on-year growth in the first half of this year has nearly doubled.

　　The new policy for duty-free shopping on outlying islands with an annual price of 100,000 yuan and unlimited single items is setting off a new shopping boom in Hainan.

Haikou Customs data shows that in July when the New Deal was implemented, there were more than 280,000 duty-free shopping passengers on Hainan’s outlying islands, and the amount of duty-free shopping exceeded 2.2 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of more than two times.

　　At the promotion meeting, the Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce made a policy recommendation on the "Overall Plan for Hainan Free Trade Port Construction".

Peng Wei, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Department of Commerce, said that the overall plan will promote Hainan to become a new benchmark for comprehensively deepening reform and opening up in the new era, and provide global investors with comprehensive, predictable and sustainable development opportunities in Hainan.

　　"In the future, Hainan will focus on building an industrial system dominated by modern service industries and high-tech industries in the tourism industry. These fields will usher in unlimited investment opportunities." Peng Wei said that in terms of high-tech industries, Hainan will focus on platform carriers and enhance industrial capabilities. Level, focusing on the Internet of Things, artificial intelligence, blockchain, digital trade, etc., develop the information industry, and expand the advanced manufacturing industry around ecological environmental protection, biomedicine, new energy vehicles, and smart cars.

　　At present, Hainan is focusing on the construction of an international tourism consumption center, promoting the in-depth integration of tourism and culture and sports, conferences and exhibitions, health and medical care, and elderly care, etc., developing characteristic tourism industry clusters, cultivating new forms of tourism, new models, creating a global tourism model province and international tourism Destination and world-renowned shopping paradise.

　　Shen Danyang said that from the market's response, Hainan is becoming a hot spot for global investment and business, with rare opportunities and promising prospects.

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