In April, President Xi Jinping announced a pilot program to build Hainan Island into a free-trade zone and free-trade port with Chinese characteristics.
The tropical island thrives on luxury tourism, and it’s also becoming China’s high-end medical services provider.
CGTN’s Ge Yunfei has more.
Sourabh Gupta on the development of Hainan and FTZ’s
CGTN’s Elaine Reyes spoke with Sourabh Gupta of the Institute for China-America studies about Hainan’s development into China’s first free-trade port – and the legacies of free-trade zones in the country.