HAINAN STRIVES FOR ENDLESS ‘CONSUMER EXPO’ SHOWING WORLD NEW HAIKOU

KUALA LUMPUR, May 11 (Bernama) -- Having recently closed the first China International Consumer Products Expo, Hainan is striving to create a never-ending ‘Consumer Expo’, aiming to promote new Haikou to the world.

Haikou, the venue of the four-day Expo, planned and organised the Expo which featured the gathering of the world's top-notch products with its utmost care and provided a full range of services.

Based on a statement, the Expo also showed the world the new image of the provincial capital city of the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP).

In recent years, Haikou has been constantly optimising the business environment, making great efforts to improve infrastructure and the well-being of the local people.

It has been awarded titles such as China's charming city, China's happiest city, one of China's top 10 cities of beauty.

Haikou is also a ‘gathering place for delicacies’. The night market is full of lights and aromas, and local specialties such as Hainan noodles, rice with spicy soup, old salt lemonade and coconut chicken have long-established reputation among tourists.

It is the desire of Chinese consumers to ‘travel around Haikou and Shop around the world’.

There are now four duty-free stores in Haikou, with a wide range of products which are good in quality and cheap in prices, and can be picked up quickly and conveniently at the airport, railway station and docks after shopping.

With the acceleration of the construction of Hainan FTP, Hainan is planning to build a globally influential consumer boutique centre in Haikou, giving full play to the policy advantages of the FTP, as well as its unique geographical and business advantages to realise its goal, ‘buy globally and sell globally’.

-- BERNAMA