China plans to make the offshore duty-free shopping policy in Hainan to cover all outbound tourists, President Xi Jinping said Friday.
This is part of new reform and opening-up measures announced by Xi for Hainan at a gathering here to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the founding of Hainan Province and the Hainan Special Economic Zone.
The State Council, China's cabinet, gave Hainan permission to run a pilot duty-free program in April 2011 in an effort to make the island a world-class tourist destination.
Currently Hainan has two duty-free shops, with one in the provincial capital of Haikou and the other in the resort city of Sanya on the southern tip of Hainan Island.
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