Hainan expected to be world's biggest duty-free market in two years


Customers shop at a duty-free mall in Sanya, South China's Hainan Province. -cnsphoto

HAINAN (Global Times): 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 (May 7) showed.

It illustrated 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.

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