Hainan: Expand the types of duty-free shopping for island residents and promote duty-free products to be expanded outside the island through cross-border e-commerce

Recently, the “Hainan Province 14th Five-Year Plan for Service Industry Development (Draft for Comments)” was publicly soliciting opinions.
It mentions expanding and strengthening duty-free consumption.
Increasing the types of duty-free shopping for island residents with “limit values and limited varieties,” and dynamically adjusting the positive list of “zero tariff” daily consumer goods.
Supporting key tourist cities to add duty-free shops, exploring new retail models such as “online display + rapid delivery.”
Attracting more overseas visitors, orderly expanding the scope of unilateral visa exemptions, optimizing and improving regional entry-exit visa policies, and issuing 5-year multiple-entry visas to more eligible individuals.
Promoting duty-free products to expand into overseas markets through cross-border e-commerce platforms, supporting the opening of online and offline cross-border e-commerce experience stores, and systematically building a multi-layered supply pattern of “offshore duty-free + duty-free for daily consumer goods for island residents + cross-border e-commerce.”
During the 14th Five-Year Plan period, annually attracting 2-3 direct-operated duty-free brands, one international top-duty-free distribution center, and 2-3 domestic duty-free groups including international duty-free transfer and consolidation departments, Guochao business units, and specialty product duty-free departments. (People’s Financial News)