Opening remarks
In 1988, Hainan Province established a special economic zone and entered the “Hainan 1.0 era”; In 2010, the State Council issued several opinions of the State Council on promoting the construction and development of Hainan International Tourism Island. The construction of Hainan International Tourism Island is on track and the “Hainan 2.0 era” is coming; In 2018, on the occasion of the “double celebration” of the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Hainan Province as a special economic zone, the central government entrusted Hainan with the major mission of building a pilot free trade zone and a free trade port with Chinese characteristics, pushing Hainan to the forefront of reform and opening up and entering the “Hainan 3.0 era”. Hainan set sail, opened a new chapter in the construction of free trade zone (port), and contributed “Hainan wisdom” to China’s reform and opening up with practical actions.
2019 is a key year for Hainan to accelerate the construction of free trade zone (port). Sina Hainan launched a series of interviews on “new mission and new development - Hainan is sailing”, which comprehensively cut into the two themes of “dialogue on free trade zone” and “seven day talk on industry dialogue” from the perspectives of economy, life, science and technology, environment, medical treatment and education, Focus on the fruitful achievements since the construction of Hainan free trade zone (port)
In this issue, we invite Li Renjun, Professor of the school of economics of Hainan University and President of Hainan Institute of industrial economics, to talk about his thoughts on the construction of Hainan free trade zone (port).
Talk about feelings
“Hainan’s policy is the most open, and its development is gratifying.”
“Everyone is more concerned about whether Hainan has made innovation and substantive promotion in the past year? I think we need to take this issue seriously.” Li Renjun said, “first of all, there are certain achievements, because Hainan undertakes a national strategy, or the position of the national reform and opening-up experimental field, its weight is very heavy. The central government’s support is also unprecedented, which is seen not only by the people of the whole country, but also by the people of the whole world.”
“From the establishment of the province in 1988 to the achievement of the country’s only strategic international tourism island in 2010, and the current construction of a free trade zone (port), Hainan’s policy has always been the most open in China, which is unprecedented. Similarly, Hainan has many unique innovations in combination with its own characteristics.” Li Renjun said, “For example, Hainan has the only high-speed rail around the island in the world, and it has the international leading level in infrastructure. Combined with the island characteristics, Hainan does not need to pay tolls in terms of vehicle use, and you can feel it. Hainan has a good ecological environment. With this advantage, we are a pioneer pilot area for the development of health service industry and medical tourism 。 According to its own development characteristics and needs, Hainan has also launched the development and planning of Jiangdong new area. “
“Since the construction of Hainan free trade zone (port), major adjustments have been made in all aspects of the economic structure. It is unrealistic to say that there are obvious differences within a year, but we can see a gratifying trend of change.” When asked about the changes brought about by the construction of Hainan free trade zone (port), Li Renjun said, “The first intuitive feeling is that all kinds of professional talents are constantly pouring into Hainan. Around me, more talents have joined Hainan University, which can be said to be different from the past. The second is that the overall economic layout of Hainan has changed from traditional extensive development to high-quality development. Hainan is determined to get rid of its dependence on real estate stations. We can see that Hainan has introduced Many policies and measures adjust the dependence on a single industry, which is to make enough space for the development of other industries. “This trend is clear. Over the past year, we can see that some enterprises in all walks of life have a strong development momentum, which is gratifying.”
Tourism and tax exemption are the highlights of Hainan. Li Renjun introduced that according to the positioning of “three districts and one center”, promoting Hainan to build an international tourism consumption center with world influence is a concrete embodiment of the requirements of high-quality development in Hainan. According to the statistics of Hainan Province, the growth rate of tourists in 2013-2018 is still increasing significantly. By 2018, Hainan province had received 76.274 million tourists, a year-on-year increase of 13.08%; The total tourism revenue reached 95.02 billion yuan, a year-on-year increase of 14.5%. In 2011, Hainan island became the only island in China and the fourth island in the world to implement “tax exemption for outlying islands”. The tax exemption policy of Hainan outlying islands continues to be relaxed, and the tax exemption leader will continue to benefit in depth in the future. Since May 1, 2018, Hainan implemented the visa free policy for people from 59 countries, 247788 people from 59 countries have entered the country without visa, an increase of 12.8% year-on-year. With the promotion of construction and the further expansion of the scope of visa free policy, considering the superior development conditions and policy guarantee of greater Hainan, there is great potential for tax-free development. With the opening of the high-speed rail around the island, the travel of tourists has become more and more convenient. At the same time, it has played an obvious role in driving the economy of cities in the west of Hainan, promoted the “two wings flying together” in the West and East, and promoted the balanced development of tourism regions.
Talking about Talents
“While introducing talents, we need to change the environment, otherwise the introduction will also lose.”
“Things are done by people. Without talent, everything is empty talk.” When talking about talent introduction in Hainan, Li Renjun said that Hainan has an arduous task in attracting talents. Several large-scale talent introduction battles in history are relatively large. “Hainan’s talent introduction this time is more rational. When talents come, we should keep them. In recent years, talent introduction is carried out on a large scale all over the country, so attracting talents is not so easy.”
“But on the other hand, the talents who come to Hainan for development are determined and optimistic about Hainan.” Professor Li Renjun has made a statistics that 60% of the high-level talents who come to Hainan belong to the business community and enter Hainan from other places for investment; 20% belong to the education industry; Another 20% belong to other industries.
“If we only introduce talents without changing the overall environment, the newly introduced talents will often be lost.” When talking about how to retain talents, Li Renjun proposed: first of all, let the existing talents continue to play a role and maintain a good talent growth (rise) environment. This is a foundation. Without this foundation, it is useless to have more people. Then we should break the past model. Recently, relevant institutions are also recruiting talents, but it doesn’t mean that you should give a title or position, and the supporting environment should also be in place. This is what we need now