2021-05-07 10:23 By: Xinhua
Photo taken on May 6, 2021 shows the opening ceremony of the first China International Consumer Products Expo in Haikou, capital of south China s Hainan Province. The expo, which opened on Thursday in Haikou, will see the participation of nearly 1,500 enterprises from around 70 countries and regions. (Xinhua/Jin Liwang)
HAIKOU, May 6 (Xinhua) The first China International Consumer Products Expo kicked off on Thursday in Haikou, the capital of south China s Hainan Province.
Slated for May 7-10, the event has attracted 648 overseas companies and 1,365 brands from 69 countries and regions, as well as 857 enterprises and 1,263 brands from China.
Covering 80,000 square meters, the expo will be the largest consumer goods expo in the Asia-Pacific region, the organizers said.
2021-05-07 04:38:26 GMT2021-05-07 12:38:26(Beijing Time) Sina English
Aerial photo taken on May 3, 2021, shows city view in Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province. (Xinhua/Yang Guanyu)
HAIKOU, May 6 (Xinhua) Despite the rise of unilateralism and protectionism, China has always delivered on its commitments to open up further and share opportunities with the world.
The first China International Consumer Products Expo is scheduled to be held in the southern province of Hainan from May 7 to 10. It is China s latest major sincere move to promote trade liberalization and facilitation, and it is a key measure toward the construction of the Hainan free trade port as well as the largest free trade zone (FTZ) nationwide.
2021-05-07 09:03 By: Xinhua
Aerial photo taken on May 3, 2021 shows the Wanlyuyuan park and high buildings in Haikou, capital of south China s Hainan Province. Haikou, an important city of China s Belt and Road initiative and also a core city for the construction of free trade port in Hainan Province, will greet the first China International Consumer Products Expo. (Xinhua/Pu Xiaoxu)
Consumer goods expo opens in Hainan
1 2021-05-07 08:16:56China Daily
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A worker checks the displays of a booth on Thursday at the Hainan International Conference and Exhibition Center, the venue of the China International Consumer Products Expo, in Haikou, Hainan province. The expo opens on Friday and runs through Monday. (Yuan Chen/for China Daily)
China will leverage the advantages of the Hainan Free Trade Port, featuring comprehensive and deepened reform as well as high-level experimental opening-up policies, to deepen bilateral, multilateral and regional cooperation and join hands with all parties to create a better future for mankind, President Xi Jinping said on Thursday.
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By GT staff reporters Published: May 07, 2021 10:33 PM
Customers shop at a duty-free mall in Sanya, South China s Hainan Province. Officials from Hainan said on Monday that sales of duty-free goods amounted to nearly 100 billion yuan ($15 billion) in the past 10 years, and the number of shoppers exceeded 25 million. Duty-free sales account for about 40 percent of Hainan s domestic tourism revenue. Photo: cnsphoto
Hainan, the tropical resort destination known as China s Hawaii, is on track to become the biggest duty-free market in the world in the next two years, a report released on Friday showed, illustrating how China s policy of building a world-class shopping haven has converted overseas shopping to domestic consumption, strengthening the plan of building Hainan into a free trade port on par with Dubai and Singapore.