China is playing a prominent role in supporting globalization and in fulfilling its global responsibility as rising protectionism and challenges affect the world order formed after World War II, scholars said.
China released on Tuesday a plan to build Hainan into a pilot free trade zone-including substantial relaxation of market access for foreign companies and upgrading of trade facilitation-to create a gateway for opening up toward the Pacific and the Indian oceans.
China on Tuesday released a plan to build its southern province Hainan into a pilot free trade zone after the central government announced in April it would support Hainan in establishing a free trade zone and would gradually build it into a free trade port.
The "one million talents recruitment of Hainan province" promotional conference, sponsored by the Hong Kong Federation of Hainan Community Organizations and the Hong Kong Hainan Youth Federation, was held at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center on Oct 9.
Hainan has signed investment and cooperation agreements with more than 60 leading Chinese and overseas companies since April 13, when the central government announced it would support Hainan to build a free trade zone and gradually build it into a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, according to officials with the Hainan Provincial Bureau of Commerce.
A non-stop flight from Haikou to Nha Trang, a coastal city in Vietnam, will commence operation on July 2, according to an event promoting the launch of the new tri-weekly flight held on June 12.
The first ever direct flight between Scotland and China has landed at Edinburgh Airport in a momentous day Scotland's busiest airport.