China News Service, Haikou, March 25 (Reporter Zhang Qianyi) The Boao Forum for Asia 2024 Annual Conference will kick off on the 26th in Boao, Hainan. Hainan Province, where the forum is held, will invite free trade zones (ports) at home and abroad to hold a global free trade port development forum at the annual meeting to carry out dialogue and cooperation and expand the "international circle of friends."
Since last year, Hainan has implemented the "Global Free Trade Zone (Port) Partnership Plan" to expand international economic and trade cooperation and form a wider, wider and deeper opening-up pattern.
Over the past year, a series of collaborations have been launched. According to the Hainan Provincial Foreign Affairs Office, in January 2024, Haikou Meilan International Airport opened a route from Haikou to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, becoming Hainan Province’s first international route to the Middle East; in August 2023, Xiangqiong Advanced Manufacturing Co., Ltd. The first three projects of the industrial park have started construction together, with a total investment of approximately 1.7 billion yuan. It is China's first industrial park jointly built by the Pilot Free Trade Zone and Hainan Free Trade Port.
There are more and more "friends" in the global free trade zone (Hong Kong), and the exchanges are getting closer and closer. At the Global Free Trade Port Development Forum at the 2023 Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, Hainan Free Trade Port jointly launched the "Global Free Trade Zone (Port) Partnership Initiative" with 25 free trade zones (ports) at home and abroad. "In the past year, the number of partners in this initiative has reached 32," said Wang Daxue, deputy director of the Hainan Provincial Foreign Affairs Office.
Liu Chunsheng, associate professor at the Central University of Finance and Economics, believes that the global free trade zone (Hong Kong) will share and display advanced experience in infrastructure, commercial investment and industry during the Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference, seek development business opportunities, and achieve mutual learning, mutual benefit and win-win results .
"The Global Free Trade Port Development Forum has established an international dialogue platform focusing on the construction and development of global free trade ports." Wang University said that the first three sessions of the forum included international representatives from Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai, Shannon in Ireland, and Jeju Province in South Korea. Representatives from well-known free ports and international organizations such as the World Trade Organization and the World Economic Cooperation and Development attended the meeting and released the "Comprehensive Evaluation Research Report on the Opening-up of Hainan Free Trade Port", providing important intellectual support for the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port.
This year, focusing on the theme of "Partner Openness and Cooperation", Hainan will join hands with many free trade zones (ports) around the world to hold the Global Free Trade Port Development Forum for the fourth time under the framework of the annual meeting, focusing on "building global free trade zone (port) partners". relations", "promoting global free trade zone (port) cooperation", "global free trade zone (port) expanding institutional opening up" and other topics, and at the same time carrying out investment promotion and promotion for domestic and foreign free trade zones (ports), Hainan key enterprises and industrial parks , provide a platform for cooperation negotiations, and the "Global Free Trade Zone (Hong Kong) Partnership Initiative Concept Document" will also be released at the same time.
At the same time, Hainan will hold a press conference at the Boao Forum for Asia 2024 Annual Conference to introduce the latest progress in the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port to domestic and foreign media.
"The Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference has enhanced the influence of the Hainan Free Trade Port in the global economic and trade system and helped Hainan integrate into the world economic map." Li Shijie, an outstanding professor at the School of Economics at Nankai University, said that Hainan can use the opportunity of the forum to strengthen modern tourism cooperation with neighboring countries. , marine economy, tropical agriculture and many other fields, piloting new international economic and trade rules, exploring and building a new model of open economic development, and accumulating experience for the country to deepen reform and expand opening up in the future. (over)