Hainan will continue to optimize its business environment and ease market access to attract more international investment this year, said Lyu Yong, head of the department of commerce of Hainan province at the annual commercial work meeting held in Haikou on Tuesday.
Hainan Airlines, China's largest private airline, will launch direct flights between China and Mexico from March 21. It will also become the first Chinese carrier to operate nonstop flights between China and Latin America.
Hainan has been making great progress toward its goal of becoming a world-class tourist destination. It has set a target to receive more than 1.3 million overseas tourists in 2020.
Tourists to Haikou, capital city of tropical Hainan province in South China, will get a bonus attraction for their Spring Festival travel plans, with Guilinyang National Tropical Agriculture Park set to open on Thursday, Huang Zhuohua, head of the agriculture park, said on Monday.
China will carry out new and stronger policies to implement reform and opening-up, Foreign Minister Wang Yi said on Friday.
So far, Hainan's 197 rivers and lakes have gotten their own chiefs under the mechanism, water quality of 64 rivers and lakes has been remarkably improved.
Hainan will accelerate its opening up by involving itself more closely in economic globalization and the Belt and Road Initiative in the next five years.
