(Focus on Boao) Governor of Hainan Province: There will be no change in personnel exchanges between Hainan and the mainland after the entire island is closed
China News Service, Boao, April 21 (Reporter Wang Ziqian) Feng Fei, Governor of Hainan Province, said at the Global Free Trade Port Development Forum at the 2022 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference on the 21st that Hainan is in full swing in accordance with the schedule. Hardware construction.
After the whole island is closed, the personnel exchanges between Hainan and the mainland will not change, and the circulation of goods is more convenient and efficient than opening ports to the outside world.
The "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" clarifies that Hainan will start the island-wide customs closure operation in a timely manner before 2025, and implement the import and export management system of "opening the first line, controlling the second line, and freeing the island".
Feng Fei said that Hainan's "first-line" liberalization is not the country's opening, and will strengthen the control of port public health safety, national biological safety, food safety, product quality and safety in the "first-line"; "second-line" control is not "death", Hainan The connection between the free trade port and the mainland will not be blocked but will be further strengthened. The 30% processing value-added domestic sales policy will also further strengthen the connection between overseas, Hainan and the mainland.
Feng Fei said that Hainan is aiming at the established goal of "having the hardware conditions for customs closure by the end of 2023 and completing all preparations for customs closure by the end of 2024" to promote the construction of software and hardware for customs closure operations.
In order to reduce the pressure gap before and after the closure and avoid major risks after the closure, Hainan will simultaneously carry out stress tests and strive for more free trade port policies to be fully tested and implemented before the closure.
He said that in the construction of the free trade port, Hainan is committed to building the three core competitiveness of policy environment, ecological environment and business environment. Efforts to strive for domestic leading, international first-class.
Feng Fei said that Hainan connects mainland China and Southeast Asia, the two most active markets in the world, and is at the intersection of domestic and international dual circulation under the new development pattern.
Under the superposition of the free trade port and RCEP policies, business opportunities are boundless and promising. "We are willing to cooperate with the world to share opportunities and create a better future." (End)