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On June 10, 2021, the 29th meeting of the Standing Committee of the 13th National People's Congress passed the Hainan Free Trade Port Law of the People's Republic of China, which determined to establish and improve the Hainan Free Trade Port customs supervision special zone system with closed-off customs operations on the entire island.
The Ministry of Commerce will make more efforts to support Hainan in aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules, enhancing institutional openness, and fostering new growth drivers through targeted measures, Jiang said.
HAIKOU, China, Dec. 18, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A report from Hainan International Media Center: China's southern island province of Hainan officially launched island-wide special customs operations on Thursday, a key step in developing the Hainan Free Trade Port (FTP) into a globally influential high-level free trade zone by the mid-century.
With a zero-tariff system fundamentally in place after the independent customs operation, high-quality global resources can flow into Hainan with greater freedom and efficiency, Wu said. Trade liberalization and facilitation are defining features of a free trade port.
This study is the first to explore the benefits of utilising STORES as a primary storage medium to support 100% renewable electricity futures in Southeast Asia. STORES can facilitate high penetration of variable solar and wind energy in electricity systems through energy time shifting and load levelling.
Within all the scenarios, the duration of storage is in the range of 0–38 h, which means hours or days of short-term energy storage are required in Southeast Asia rather than weeks or months of long-term, seasonal energy storage.
Rapid increases in electricity consumption in Southeast Asia caused by rising living standards and population raise concerns about energy security, affordability and environmental sustainability. In this study, the role of short-term off-river energy storage (STORES) in supporting 100% renewable electricity in Southeast Asia is investigated.
Consequently, the integration of wind energy can substantially reduce the reliance on energy storage to stabilise the electricity systems when solar energy is not sufficient. However, compared with solar energy, the seasonal variability in wind energy in Southeast Asia is large.
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From 2007 to present, Kazakhstan, the Kyrgyz Republic, and Tajikistan have received $16.2 million to support peacekeeping capacity building via the Global Peace Operations Initiative (GPOI). At present, only Kazakhstan is an active GPOI partner, having deployed an infantry company with India to Lebanon (UNIFIL).
Central Asian states support stabilization efforts in Afghanistan and are key contributors to future peace and prosperity in Afghanistan and the region. The United States has $79 million in open government-to-government sales cases with the Central Asian states under the Foreign Military Sales (FMS) system.
Conventional Weapons Destruction priorities for Central Asia are to prevent the illicit transfer of small arms, light weapons, and conventional ammunition; mitigate and prevent unplanned explosions at munitions sites; and clear legacy landmine contamination, unexploded ordnance, abandoned ordnance, and other explosive remnants of war.
On November 20, 2022, the first foreign-invested enterprise cluster in Hainan Free Trade Port serving foreign-invested enterprises was unveiled in Qiongshan District, Haikou, and six foreign-invested enterprises signed letters of intent to move in at the same time.
In order to connect with the Hainan Free Trade Port, on January 1, 2017, the construction of Xuwen Port in Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province officially started. The port includes 16 5,000-ton passenger ro-ro berths and 1 5,000-ton hazardous goods dedicated ro-ro berth.
The Ministry of Commerce will make more efforts to support Hainan in aligning with high-standard international economic and trade rules, enhancing institutional openness, and fostering new growth drivers through targeted measures, Jiang said.
"The move is aimed at expanding opening up and accelerating development," said Cai, emphasizing that Hainan's opening up is not merely about lifting restrictions, but about systematically building an institutional framework to ensure the free and efficient flow of people, goods and capital.
