More and more Chinese and overseas tourists are spending their holidays in Hainan. The photo shows an aerial view of Sanya City, Hainan Province. Wang Chenglong of Hainan Daily 

The Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP), with the launching of island-wide special customs operations, is allowing greater convenience for overseas goods to enter the island, trying to build it into an efficient hub connecting China with the rest of the world. Its core appeal no longer relies solely on policy incentives but has shifted toward transparent and predictable institutional guarantees which provide stable expectations for global investors. 

Hainan’s practices highlight its role, both as a forefront for China’s opening-up and as an international platform for nurturing opportunities and sharing development dividends. To understand Hainan is to grasp the logic and tangible pathways through which China shares its development dividends with global partners.