"Accelerate the construction of a free trade port with Chinese characteristics with world influence, and make Hainan a demonstration of China's reform and opening up in the new era" "Make Hainan Free Trade Port a beautiful business card showing Chinese style"...

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  Recently, General Secretary Xi Jinping, who inspected Hainan, made new important instructions for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port.

  On April 13, 34 years ago, Hainan was officially approved as a province and a special economic zone.

  Four years ago, on April 13, General Secretary Xi Jinping attended a conference to celebrate the 30th anniversary of Hainan's establishment of a special economic zone and put forward requirements for Hainan to build a free trade port with Chinese characteristics.

  General Secretary Xi Jinping has paid attention to the free trade port issue for a long time.

While working in Xiamen in the 1980s, he proposed the idea of ​​developing an export-oriented economy and building Xiamen into a multi-functional special economic zone with free trade features. He studied the issue of free trade ports earlier and promoted the implementation of certain policies in Xiamen.

  The construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port is to show the world with practical actions that China's door to opening up will not be closed, but will only open wider; it is to support and promote economic globalization with a new round of high-level opening up.

  From Hainan, you can reach 21 countries and regions within a 4-hour flight, covering 47% of the world's population and 30% of GDP; within an 8-hour flight, you can reach 59 countries and regions, covering 67% of the world's population and 41% of the world's GDP. GDP.

  The country's largest special economic zone, an important reform test field, a relatively independent geographical unit, located on the two major waterways of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean... No matter from which dimension of history, nature, and reality, the overall situation of my country's reform and opening up and socialist modernization drive Among them, Hainan has a special status and an important role.

  "Hainan will complete this historic task, which is also a strategic arrangement for the construction of a special economic zone of socialism with Chinese characteristics. We have been exploring and experimenting boldly, and now we have found a way." General Secretary Xi Jinping said earnestly.

  What does a free trade port with Chinese characteristics look like?

How to build?

  The typical free trade ports in the world basically adopt the existing Western system.

  A free trade port with Chinese characteristics must not only possess the basic elements of a free trade port, but also fully reflect Chinese characteristics, which means that there is no precedent to follow and no model to copy.

The construction site of the Haikou New Seaport Passenger Transport Complex Project, taken on February 11, 2022 (drone photo).

Xinhua News Agency (Photo by Li Duojiang)

  In this inspection, General Secretary Xi Jinping used "three persistences" to further express the profound meaning of "Chinese characteristics":

  It is necessary to uphold the unswerving leadership of the party, consciously stand in the overall situation of the party and the country, think about problems and do things, and always adhere to the correct political direction;

  It is necessary to uphold the socialist system with Chinese characteristics unswervingly, and firmly grasp the characterization of socialism with Chinese characteristics;

  It is necessary to persist in maintaining national security, strengthen the identification and prevention of major risks, coordinate reform, development and stability, and insist on establishing first and then breaking, and not breaking without standing.

  Looking back at the past 4 years, from "gradual exploration" to "speeding up exploration" to "speeding up"... General Secretary Xi Jinping has made important instructions for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port many times, from top-level design to building foundations, The pillars and beams, from the direction goals, thinking principles to key measures, are personally planned, scientifically deployed, and guided.

  On June 1, 2020, the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port" was announced; on June 10, 2021, the "Hainan Free Trade Port Law of the People's Republic of China" was voted and passed; on February 10, 2022, Hainan Free Trade Port The preparations for Hong Kong's island-wide customs closure operation have started...

  From the official proposal to the full implementation, in the past four years, the Hainan Free Trade Port, a major reform and opening-up initiative personally planned, deployed and promoted by General Secretary Xi Jinping, has made obvious progress, steadily, powerfully and orderly.

  One step at a time, steady and steady.

Facing the future, the blueprint of Hainan Free Trade Port is becoming clearer:

  By 2025, a free trade port policy and institutional system focusing on free trade and investment will be initially established, and by 2035, it will become a new highland for my country's open economy, and by the middle of this century, a high level of international influence will be fully established. Free trade port.

  Producer: Zhao Cheng

  Planning: Huo Xiaoguang

  Main writers: Pan Jie, Wu Maohui, Zou Duowei

  Coordination: Han Jie, Huang Quanquan, Wang Huiyu, Wang Xuan

  Vision | Editor: Wu Jingjing, Tang Xing, Ou Likun

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