Spring of joy for sales

Thriving: Customers visit a duty-free shop in Haikou, south China’s Hainan province. Two new offshore duty-free shops opened recently in Haikou, raising the number of duty-free shops in the province to nine. — Xinhua

BEIJING: Duty-free shops in Hainan province saw sales of 1.5 billion yuan (US$232mil) during the Spring Festival shopping spree, double the figure for the Spring Festival holiday in 2019.

From Feb 11, Lunar New Year’s eve, to Wednesday, sales at Hainan’s nine duty-free shops reached 1.5 billion yuan, 1.4 billion yuan of which was for duty-free goods, official data showed.