While some countries cling to outdated models of protectionism, China is investing in the future through opening-up and development. Hainan exemplifies this approach with a bold experiment in open trade and cross-cultural exchange.
Jan 29, 2026
Hainan is becoming a new frontier for China’s opening-up, a new hub for regional mutually beneficial cooperation, and a new engine driving globalization.
Jan 19, 2026
While tariffs are raised to guard against perceived unfairness, China is lowering barriers through codified, rules-based systems designed to endure.
Jan 19, 2026
For China, it creates a strategic junction for domestic and international economic circulation, boosting high-level openness to drive domestic reform and providing a pivotal platform for China’s deeper participation in Asia-Pacific economic integration.
Jan 16, 2026
By facilitating the flow of data, talent and capital, Hainan aims to become a key junction in the global network of trade and opportunity.
Dec 22, 2025
The island of Hainan combines ecological conservation with cultural tourism to build its own calling card.
Dec 9, 2024
Hainan progresses with its mandate to build a free trade port (FTP) with Chinese characteristics for global benefit.
Aug 9, 2024
Hainan’s emergence as a major player in China-Africa trade relations reflects China’s broader strategy to engage with Africa through a more decentralised approach.
Jul 19, 2023
The establishment of Hainan Free Trade Port aims to create an area where the circulation of goods, currency, personnel and information are at the nation’s highest level of openness to the world.
Apr 18, 2023
With FTP development advancing, Hainan has achieved remarkable progress in its economic transformation.
Jul 27, 2022
In every capacity, Hainan’s economy is being refashioned to integrate itself with a broader geographic area and to transform it into a hub and a gateway to China as well as the countries around it.
Apr 18, 2022
Hainan is now all set to become the next promising region of China. Its economic interests, to a large extent, are inextricably intertwined with those of Southeast Asia.
Jan 29, 2022