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Ref. : EIC 631/22/6

19 April 2018

Dear Sirs,

Commercial Information Circular No. 378/2018

The Mainland of China : Guiding Opinions of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC) and the State Council on Supporting Hainan to Fully Deepening Reform and Opening Up

The CPC and the State Council jointly issued "Guiding Opinions on Supporting Hainan to Fully Deepening Reform and Opening Up" (in short, "Opinions") on 11 April 2018. The "Opinions" state that the China (Hainan) Pilot Free Trade Zone will be established in consideration of local characteristics of Hainan, to implement what is being tried in existing pilot free trade zones across the entire Hainan island. Actions will be taken, depending on the needs of the national development, to gradually explore and steadily advance Hainan's development of a free trade port, and set up the framework of policies for the free trade port step by step and in phases. Please refer to the Appendix (pdf format) for the "Opinions" (available in Chinese only).

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Yours faithfully,

(Ms Helen CHENG)
for Director-General of Trade and Industry

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