新闻纵贯线 Today updated 20:00 2018/04/13（在线收听）

“功成不必在我，功成必定有我”-海南自贸港今日获批

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China says it will develop the island province of Hainan into a new free trade zone and a free trade port. Chinese President Xi Jinping announced the move on Friday in Haikou, the capital of the Province. The president made the remark at a meeting commemorating the 30th anniversary of Hainan Province.Xi Jinping has also urged special economic zones to continue as important experimental platforms for reform and opening-up. The Chinese president says the special economic zones should stay true to their mission and make a good use of the new strategic position, adding that they should continue as pioneers of reform and opening-up and places where things get done.

    For more on this, CRI's Suyi joined on the line by Giles Chance, visiting professor of the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University;on the line we have Liu Baocheng, associate professor at the business school of the University of International Business and Economics;Tu Xinquan, Dean of the China Institute for WTO Studies at the UIBE

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