Hainan Unveils 15th Five-Year Plan, Showing Strong Momentum After Free Trade Port Closure

On April 10th, the People’s Government of Hainan Province held a special press conference themed "Starting the 15th Five-Year Plan—Building a High-Standard Hainan Free Trade Port", comprehensively interpreting the Outline of the 15th Five-Year Plan for National Economic and Social Development of Hainan Province and sharing the new progress and achievements since the full-island closure and operation. Liu Xiaoming, Deputy Secretary of the CPC Hainan Provincial Committee and Governor of Hainan Province, attended the conference and introduced relevant details.

According to People’s Daily, Governor Liu Xiaoming stated that the Outline, which closely links the long-term goals for 2035, puts forward 24 main indicators from five dimensions—open development, innovation-driven growth, people’s well-being, green low-carbon development and security guarantee—and systematically establishes an implementation framework of "goals-tasks-actions". Divided into 15 chapters, the Outline clarifies key tasks in six major areas, focusing on high-level opening-up, high-quality development and high-standard reform.

Since the full-island closure and operation on December 18th, 2025, Hainan Free Trade Port has achieved a key leap, with policy effects continuously released and market vitality significantly enhanced. By March 31st, the value of imported "zero-tariff" goods had reached 2.021 billion yuan, with 329 million yuan of tariffs exempted. The benefit scope of the tariff exemption policy for processing and value-added has been further expanded, with 336 million yuan of processed and value-added goods sold domestically and 17.2485 million yuan of tariffs exempted.

According to China News Service, the policy synergy has effectively reduced enterprise operating costs and attracted a large number of market entities to settle in Hainan. From the closure to the end of March, the province added 96,800 new registered market entities, an increase of 45.86%, including 80,200 new enterprises, a surge of 100.95%. In the same period, Hainan’s import and export of goods reached 82.01 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 32.9%, covering more than 220 countries and regions worldwide.

Looking ahead to the next five years, Hainan will focus on the "45432" development framework to develop new quality productive forces. Governor Liu highlighted the "5" in the framework—the "Five-Oriented Strengthening" characteristic industrial chains, namely strengthening through seeds (seed industry), oceans (marine economy), aerospace (aerospace industry), green development (green low-carbon) and digitalization (digital economy) .

Hainan will also align with international high-standard economic and trade rules, gradually improve its policy system, and promote the upgrading of four leading industries and the innovative development of four emerging future industries. The press conference fully demonstrated Hainan’s strong start in the new stage of closure and operation, as well as its clear path and firm determination to promote high-quality economic and social development.