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Hainan's Opening, Singapore Can't Sit Still
Today, the world's attention is focused on an island.
Hainan's opening, a free trade port that is 8 times larger than Dubai, 30 times larger than Hong Kong, and 50 times larger than Singapore, has officially been established.
But many people still don't understand what Hainan's opening has to do with ordinary people like us.
Is it just that the duty-free shops are bigger, offering more luxury goods, or that we will need to apply for a visa to go to Hainan in the future?
In fact, your imagination can be even bigger; today's Hainan will not follow the old paths of Hong Kong, Singapore, or Dubai.
What Hainan aims to create is the largest and unique free trade port in the world.
The opening is meant to unlock a bigger door.
On the first day of Hainan's opening, it was explosive, with the price of an iPhone reduced by up to 2140 yuan (duty-free price plus consumption vouchers). But more important than buying is that Hainan wants to innovate Singapore's fate.
First, it must be clarified: Hainan's opening does not restrict people. In the future, you will still be able to sunbathe in Sanya and shop in Haikou's duty-free city without any hindrance.
But the land beneath your feet has changed significantly:
It may become a brand new super transit hub in the Asia-Pacific, challenging Singapore's decades-long status as the 'King of Transit'.
Why do I say that? The key lies in the four characters: 'first line released'.
You should know that after Hainan's opening, 6,600 items can be imported duty-free, from high-end scientific research equipment to daily consumer goods, entering Hainan with almost no barriers.
It is evident that this has disturbed Singapore's cheese.
Previously, Singapore relied on its unique geographical location to become a must-choose service station for global goods passing through. In 2024, just relying on transit trade between China and Indonesia, service fees will amount to 57 billion USD, exceeding half of Hainan's GDP.
But in the future, Thai durians, Norwegian salmon, and French perfumes may choose to transit through Hainan because of zero tariffs.
They refuel and have a meal, and Hainan's economy will rapidly develop.
However, Hainan will not become 'the next Singapore'; its ambition is not to 'become the world's mover'.
In the past, what did Hainan rely on for development? Tourism, real estate, and agriculture; relying on nature for income and land for wealth.
But in the future, Hainan's industrial upgrade will no longer wait for the wind; it will actively create opportunities. Zero tariffs are the 'strongest leverage' Hainan offers to enterprises.
It can use lower costs to leverage high-end industries and global markets that were previously unimaginable. A chip company building a factory here and importing lithography machines could save over 100 million yuan, with products sold back to the mainland and globally.
As a result, enterprises from over 170 countries and regions have already established a presence here.
Two months before the opening, Hainan revved up its investment efforts, signing over 100 billion in just four days: CATL increased investment in its Hainan subsidiary, with registered capital soaring from 2 million to 10 billion; Ant Group's single investment reached 3.5 billion, increasing nearly 350 times.
The speed of capital inflow has completely exposed Hainan's ambition.
Some may wonder, with such low duty-free costs, will anyone just change the labels on duty-free goods and sell them to the mainland, engaging in low-price dumping?
Will Hainan retrace the old path of 'three imports and one supplement' that Shenzhen walked forty years ago?
This brings us to the official emphasis on 'second line control':
Only goods that are genuinely processed and have added value exceeding 30% in Hainan will enjoy duty-free status when entering the mainland. This policy red line safeguards the gold content of industrial upgrades. In other words, simple labeling and repackaging won't work in Hainan.
On one hand, this is forcing Hainan to achieve real industrial upgrades, encouraging local factory construction, R&D, and hiring, keeping the value genuinely in Hainan.
On the other hand, this is also a 'killer tool' aimed at global capital:
No matter whether you produce French handbags, German machines, or Dutch lithography machines, if produced abroad, you must pay value-added tax when selling to mainland China. But what if produced in Hainan? As long as the value added exceeds 30%, it will be exempt from tax directly.
This could save costs exceeding 10%, and profit margins would absolutely soar, attracting countless capital.
Hainan has thus clarified that it will not focus on re-export trade and processing manufacturing, but will concentrate on tourism, modern services, high-tech industries, and highly efficient tropical agriculture, aiming at the three future industries of seed industry, deep sea, and aerospace.
Do not doubt Hainan's own capabilities; it does not rely solely on itself, but serves as an 'incubator' and 'training ground' to attract high-end manufacturing capabilities from around the world.
So, in the future, when you come to Hainan, besides sunshine, beaches, and waves, you will increasingly see:
In Wenchang International Aerospace City, commercial space rockets lining up for launch; in the laboratories of Sanya Yazhou Bay, seeds being genetically rewritten; in the medical wards of Boao Lecheng, internationally leading drugs and devices creating miracles of life;
All of this points to one fact: Hainan is not changing its race track; it is changing the script of life.
If you are looking for opportunities, today's Hainan needs people more than ever. Qualified scarce talents and corporate executives will see a maximum personal income tax cap of 15%.
If you are a tourist, you will witness a true global shopping paradise.
If you are a Hainan local, you will see a brand new hometown: airports, roads, and networks will undergo systematic upgrades, creating a closed loop of people's and money's flow on this island.
In the next decade, Hainan will be at the forefront, moving with the wind and holding immense potential.
The interesting thing about the times is that it always gives new tickets to those who are determined. This time, Hainan wants to personally write its name into the next round of history.
Defying fate, it’s time for a fight.