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total of 98.5 million new market entities have been system of Sandu Town in Danzhou was put under the
added in Hainan Province, an increase of 19.8% over jurisdiction of Yangpu. The planned area of Yangpu
the previous year. As of November, 214 strategic Economic Development Zone is 120 square kilometers
framework agreements and investment cooperation with a population of 100,000. Yangpu Economic
agreements have been signed, 97 registered project Development Zone is to develop into “one port and
companies have been registered and 30 have been in three bases”, i.e. “a shipping hub port, a petrochemical
operation. These 30 projects are mainly headquarters of base, an integrated pulp-paper production base and
enterprises, including group headquarters, international an oil and gas reserve base oriented to Southeast Asia”.
trade headquarters, settlement center, operation The industry development strategy of Yangpu is to seize
headquarters, regional headquarters and business the strategic opportunities of “Maritime Silk Road” and
headquarters etc. For example, China National Travel “Free Trade Zone” and focus on building two platforms,
Service Group Corporation is the first central SOE to set i.e. export processing base for petrochemical products
up headquarters in Hainan, with a registered capital of and international energy trading center oriented to
15.8 billion yuan. It is a significant progress of Hainan to Southeast Asia.
forege an international tourism consumption center and
to promote the build-up of a headquarters base. Projects
recently have been put into construction include the
12 projects to promote the construction of FTA such as
Hainan International Convention and Exhibition Center
Phase II and China Shipping Heavy Industry Deep-sea
Test Site, with a total investment of 12.4 billion yuan;
88 projects such as Haikou Haixiu Expressway (Phase
II) and Sanya Rural Domestic Sewage Treatment, with a
total investment of 17.4 billion yuan. Projects have been
concentrated contracted include 36 projects to promote
the construction of free trade zones, such as Sanya Deep
Sea Science and Technology City and Shunfeng Hainan
International Fresh Port, with a total investment of 33.3
billion yuan; 5 projects to supplement the previous
work, such as the expansion of land area behind CNOOC
Hainan Wharf and the second phase of Hainan Haidian
Foreign Language Experimental School, with a total
investment of 900 million yuan1.

Hainan Yangpu Economic Development Zone

Yangpu Economic Development Zone is a state-level
development zone benefited from the policy of bonded
area approved by the State Council in 1992. The zone
is located on the Yangpu Peninsula in the northwest of
Hainan, with an area of 31 square kilometers. In 2007,
the State Council approved the establishment of Yangpu
Bonded Port with an area of 9.2063 square kilometers.
In July 2012, upon the approval of the State Council, the
relative location of adjoining parcels of development
zones were adjusted. In October 2013, upon the approval
of the Hainan Provincial Party Committee and the Hainan
Provincial People’s Government, the organizational

1 海南自贸区建设集中开工百个项目 “企业总部”扎堆入琼”(Chinese
only) (December 11, 2018), China News Service. http://www.
hi.chinanews.com/hnnew/2018-12-11/478766.html

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