China News Agency, Haikou, September 17 (Reporter Wang Ziqian) This year, multiple rounds of epidemics have hit Hainan's economy. Hainan officials released a package of boosting plans on the evening of the 17th, requesting the release of free trade port policy dividends and striving to ensure annual economic development goals.
In 2021, the growth rate of major economic indicators in Hainan will be among the top in the country, and it will also maintain a relatively high growth rate in the first quarter of this year.
However, due to the repeated epidemics, especially under the severe impact of the current round of epidemics since August, Hainan's core indicators such as GDP, investment, and consumption have experienced a short-term deep decline.
The "Hainan Provincial Action Plan for Coordinating Epidemic Prevention and Control and Economic Recovery and Boosting" (referred to as the "Action Plan") announced on the 17th made it clear that the province's major industries should resume work and production in September in a prompt and orderly manner, and sprint in the fourth quarter. .
The "Action Plan" proposes a total of 35 measures in nine areas, including effective epidemic prevention and control, promoting the construction of a free trade port, promoting the resumption of work and production, and expanding effective investment. Excessive control.
Hainan's economic recovery and development, the construction of a free trade port is the biggest driving force.
Hainan will expand the scope of the "first-line liberalization, second-line control" pilot, accelerate the adjustment and optimization of the free trade port industry encouragement catalogue, strengthen the "zero tariff" policy advantage, and accelerate the implementation of customs closure projects.
In the field of investment, the Action Plan proposes to expand effective investment, including accelerating investment in key areas such as expressways and industrial projects, consolidating investment in key areas such as Haikou, Sanya, and Danzhou, and stabilizing investment in real estate development.
Since the current round of the epidemic, the consumer market represented by duty-free shopping in Hainan has experienced a serious decline. Hainan will orderly implement themed activities for consumption drainage, focus on key areas to stimulate consumption potential, and hold a special marketing event for the first Hainan Island Duty Free Shopping Festival.
In terms of stabilizing foreign investment and foreign trade, Hainan will introduce policies and measures to improve cross-border trade facilitation, set up a new offshore international trade service center in Hainan Free Trade Port, fully implement and strive to expand the scope of the policy scope of industries that encourage foreign investment, and plan to host Hong Kong and Macau in due course. Special promotion activities.
Hainan officials also announced on the same day the "Special Measures for Hainan Province to Stabilize the Economy and Help Enterprises Relief and Development (Version 2.0)", which proposed 34 from six aspects: the upgrade of the relief policy, the increase in deferred payment measures, the increase in financial support, and the further stimulation of the consumer market. measures.
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