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• The Tourism and Business Zone was set Summary
up to: (i) focus on connecting Taiwan’s tourism and
tourist services; and (ii) accelerate the construction To develop new quality productive forces, Fujian
of industrial functional platforms such as coastal will help traditional enterprises go digital and
tourist, cross-strait tourism and agricultural and smarter and develop an array of emerging and future
fishing product processing clusters. industries, including new-generation information
technology, new energy, biomedicine, AI and
In 2023, the GDP of Pingtan reached RMB37 quantum technology. It will seek green and low-
billion with 3% YoY growth. The wind power carbon growth by developing new energy industries
industry saw steady growth, with an increase of and getting all its manufacturing enterprises
24.2% YoY. 61 powered by green electricity. In the next five years,
Fujian will focus on supporting the development
In February 2022, the government of Pingtan of the financial industry, lending foreign exchange
issues its high-quality development plan for registration management, introducing Taiwanese
tourism, which indicates during the 14th Five-Year and foreign investment, promoting foreign
Plan, Pingtan will emphasize on constructing an investment and trade facilitation and improving
international tourism island. By 2023, focusing on the level of opening up. Fujian Province will build
enhancing the integration of tourism and culture, a cross-strait integration demonstration zone,
Pingtan will provide international level of tourism strengthen economic, technological and talent
products and services for over 8 million tourists cooperation with Taiwan and create opportunities
and achieve tourism revenue of over RMB10 billion. for cross-strait integration.
By 2025, the construction of Pingtan international
tourism island will be basically completed. Pingtan
is expected to become an internationally renowned
resort and a forefront of the Belt and Road
Initiative with improved international influence
and competitiveness. The annual tourists will
reach 10 million with total revenue of tourism to
RMB15 billion and the proportion of value-added
of tourism will account 14% of GDP.

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