“The island-wide customs closure of the Hainan Free Trade Port represents a high-level institutional innovation that facilitates for your trade, investment, cross-border capital flows, and personnel exchanges,’ said Philip G. Laird, Vice President of Innovation, Global and Academic Partnerships at Trinity Western University. He described the move as a landmark step in China’s deepening opening-up.

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