China News Service, Haikou, July 11 (Reporter Yin Haiming) "Looking back at the past ten years in Hainan, the biggest theme is the comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up, and the biggest highlight is the construction of a free trade port." At the press conference on the theme of "Ten Years of China, Hainan", the commission said that Hainan holds high the banner of reform and opening up and strives to become a model for China's reform and opening up in the new era.

On July 11, the Hainan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the theme of "Ten Years of China • Hainan" to introduce Hainan's comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up and the construction of a free trade port since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

Pictured is the press conference.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunfei

　　A series of data were released at the press conference on that day, which visually showed the achievements of Hainan's development in the past ten years, especially since the construction of the free trade port.

　　——More than 180 items.

Shen Xiaoming said that since 2018, more than 180 free trade port policy documents have come into effect, preparations for customs closure operations have been fully rolled out, and work related to stress testing has been carried out in an orderly manner; The average annual growth rate of actual utilization of foreign capital is 80%, and the average annual growth rate of foreign-funded enterprises is nearly 120%.

　　- 50%, 40%, 30%, 80%.

In recent years, Hainan has focused on optimizing its industrial structure and is determined to get rid of "real estate dependence".

Shen Xiaoming said that the proportion of investment in real estate development in Hainan has dropped from the highest 50% to 30%, the contribution of real estate to tax revenue has dropped from more than 40% to 30% at the peak, and the industrial structure has changed from the real estate-based industry in the past to tourism and modern service industries. , high-tech industry, tropical characteristic high-efficiency agriculture is the main advance.

At present, the contribution rate of these four leading industries to economic growth is close to 80%.

　　- 1.98 million.

Shen Danyang, member of the Standing Committee of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and executive vice governor, said that Hainan's business environment has been significantly optimized in recent years, which has made the scale of new market players and the use of foreign capital out of the free trade port.

At the end of 2012, there were about 420,000 registered market entities in the province, and by the end of June 2022, it had increased to 1.98 million.

From 2018 to 2020, the cumulative actual use of foreign capital in Hainan Province was 5.27 billion U.S. dollars, more than half of the total actual use of foreign capital (9.6 billion U.S. dollars) in the first 30 years of Hainan's establishment.

In the first half of this year, the province's utilization of foreign capital still maintained rapid growth, with a year-on-year increase of more than 80% from January to May.

　　--5 times.

Shen Danyang said that Hainan is striving to give full play to the advantages of "temperature", "depth" and "latitude", speed up the construction of Nanfan Science and Technology City, Deep Sea Science and Technology City, and Aerospace Science and Technology City, and create three major technological innovation highlands of "land, sea and air".

Statistics show that the number of high-tech enterprises in Hainan has grown by an average of more than 40% in the past five years, with an increase of nearly five times in five years.

Last year, the operating income of the province's high-tech enterprises accounted for more than 35% of the province's high-tech industry output value.

　　——Over 99%.

A good ecological environment is the "biggest capital" of Hainan's development.

Feng Fei, Governor of Hainan Province, said that in the past ten years, Hainan's ecological environment has continued to improve, and the quality of the ecological environment has always been at the leading level in the country.

For example, the concentration of PM2.5 has dropped from about 25 micrograms per cubic meter ten years ago to 13 micrograms per cubic meter, the proportion of days with good air quality has remained above 99%, and the water quality and soil environment are generally excellent.

　　- Three lists.

The Hainan Free Trade Port will start the island-wide customs closure operation in due course before the end of 2025.

Feng Fei said that, focusing on the preparations for the closure of the customs, Hainan has determined the "three lists" as the No. 1 project, which will be fully advanced:

On July 11, the Hainan Provincial Party Committee of the Communist Party of China held a press conference on the theme of "Ten Years of China • Hainan" to introduce Hainan's comprehensive deepening of reform and opening up and the construction of a free trade port since the 18th National Congress of the Communist Party of China.

The picture shows Shen Xiaoming (middle), Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Director of the Standing Committee of the Provincial People's Congress, Feng Fei (right), Deputy Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Governor, and Xu Qifang, Deputy Secretary of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Political and Legal Committee at the press conference.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Luo Yunfei

　　The task list guides the software and hardware tasks to be completed in the island-wide customs closure before the end of 2024, involving 64 key contents in 11 aspects, including port planning and construction, layout and construction of non-customs areas, and taxation arrangements.

　　The project list is the projectization of hardware tasks.

The first batch of customs closure projects, with a planned total investment of more than 12 billion yuan, will start a batch of the first batch of customs closure projects at the end of July, and all of them will start before the end of June next year.

　　In the stress test list, in order to reduce the risk of policy gaps before and after customs closure, we will strive to fully test and implement most free trade port policies before customs closure.

There are currently 27 items in the stress test list, which will be dynamically added in due course according to the needs of the island-wide customs clearance work.

　　--10 times.

Talents are the foundation of entrepreneurship. Since 2018, Hainan has taken multiple measures to introduce and cultivate talents.

Shen Xiaoming said that Hainan adheres to the two-wheel drive of talent introduction and training. Since 2018, it has introduced 400,000 talents, an increase of nearly 10 times compared with the same caliber in the previous four years.

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