China on Thursday launched island-wide special customs operations in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), the world's largest FTP by area.

December19,2025

The launch of island-wide special customs operations in China's Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) will significantly expand zero-tariff coverage, boost key industries, and help turn the island into a new hub for global innovation and services, a Swedish expert has said.

December19,2025

Starting Dec. 18, the Hainan Free Trade Port officially launches island-wide special customs operations.

December18,2025

The Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) -- the largest free trade port in the world in terms of area -- began island-wide special customs operations on Thursday, in a landmark move in China's high-standard opening-up.

December18,2025

As dusk settled over Haikou, capital of south China's Hainan Province, Japanese restaurateur Kato Tetsuya moved between tables in his softly lit bistro, chatting with diners in his halting Chinese beside his wife.

November06,2025

China's Hainan Free Trade Port will officially launch island-wide independent customs operation on Dec. 18, 2025.

July23,2025

The proportion of tariff lines with zero-tariff products in Hainan Free Trade Port will increase from 21 percent to 74 percent, according to a press conference held on Wednesday.

July23,2025

China is committed to development through high-level opening up and will continue to foster a business environment that is market-oriented, law-based and internationalized, promote high-quality Belt and Road cooperation, and implement the Global Development Initiative, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said here on Wednesday.

December05,2024

Over the past several years, China has made solid strides in building a high-level free trade port (FTP) in its southern island province of Hainan. Major projects in Hainan are under smooth construction.

March15,2024

In 2022, the key parks of Hainan Free Trade Port completed a total investment in fixed assets of 126.15 billion yuan (about 18.62 billion U.S. dollars), a year-on-year increase of 6.6 percent.

February10,2023

A batch of goods finished the customs clearance at Haikou Meilan International Airport in Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) on Wednesday and will be exported to France later, marking the first time for Hainan enterprises to declare export goods through the cross-border e-commerce business-to-business (B2B) direct export mode, reported Chinanews.com.

December01,2022

Thirty-six projects with total investment of 13 billion yuan (about 2 billion U.S. dollars) were signed Monday in the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), said local authorities.

April12,2022

China's southernmost province of Hainan, which is being built into a free trade port, is attracting more and more foreigners to come and start a business. We spoke to two foreign entrepreneurs and they told us why they chose Hainan for their future.

June25,2021

Two new offshore duty-free shops opened on Sunday in Haikou, capital of south China's island province of Hainan, raising the number of duty-free shops in the province to nine.

February01,2021

​In June 2020, the Chinese government issued the "Overall Plan for the Construction of Hainan Free Trade Port". Cross-border capital management in the construction of Hainan Free Trade Port is an important issue for system design to realize the free flow of factors.

January31,2021

China's new deep-sea manned submersible Fendouzhe (Striver) returned to south China's Hainan Province on Saturday morning onboard the scientific research ship Tansuo-1, after completing its ocean expedition.

November30,2020

On Nov. 24, a local working forum for the first China International Consumer Products Expo (CICPE) was held in Haikou, officially marking the start of local exhibition preparation for the CICPE.

November27,2020

Uruguay will set up a football club in south China's Hainan Province to promote football and cultural cooperation, according to a framework agreement signed on Wednesday.

November20,2020