Hainan is eyeing the development of a national seed breeding base with top standards, with the construction of the Nanfan Scientific and Research Breeding Base as the core, coupled with a science and technology town, as well as a transfer base for the introduction of global animals and plant germplasm.
The Boao Forum for Asia Annual Conference 2019 was held in March in Hainan, showcasing the remarkable achievements in China over the past 70 years, since the founding of the People's Republic of China.
Two new duty-free shopping malls were opened in Hainan earlier this year, further kindling people's enthusiasm for shopping and bring fun experiences to their lives. Li Yanxuan and Wei Yuyi, two Hainan residents that were born in the 1990s, shared their stories about duty-free shopping and its development in their home province.
From the state-owned foreign currency duty-free shopping mall established 30 years ago to the convenient and upgraded duty-free shops in the present, duty-free shopping has become a new calling card for Hainan province, which has an eye to becoming an international tourism consumption center.
The year 2019 marks the 70th anniversary of the founding of People's Republic of China. From an obscure island to a crucial platform of China's reform and opening-up, Hainan, which is situated in the southern part of China, has changed considerably over the past seven decades.
From being impoverished to now being prosperous, Mei'ao Village in the city of Haikou has changed significantly in its appearance, people's living standards, and education conditions, serving as an example of the development of tens of millions of villages in China over the past 70 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China.