The three-year operational programme for the optimization of foreign-related services for the internationalization of business environment (hereinafter referred to as the action programme), recently released in the province of hainan, has introduced 30 specific measures, including the exploration of offshore job qualifications, the improvement of customs clearance efficiency and the optimization of inbound tourism services, to further improve the system of internationalized services and to attract global business and talent to share opportunities for the development of free trade ports. This was learned by journalists at the launch of the series “hainan freeport policy interpretation” on 28 april。
San yau wan no. 1, foreign tourists shopping at the supermarket. Heinama daily, a full-time journalist, wang chenglong
The programme of action clearly states that high standards will be used to build an international service portal for hong kong free from trade, a multilingual platform for policy interpretation, government services, information and one-stop shops, and that efforts will be made to promote the internationalization of commercial arbitration and to accelerate the development of institutional systems that are linked to high standards of international trade and economic rules。
In response to the institutional challenge of bridging the career development of overseas professionals in china, the programme of action is innovative in introducing the `external vocational qualifications by reference system'。
The system selects the main sectors of the industry, such as medicine, finance and big data, and compares the 105 overseas vocational qualifications of 22 countries and of our hong kong/australian region with those of the province's functional title, identifying them directly. Qualified expatriates may directly identify the corresponding rank, without having to participate in the defence, and achieve efficiency through the “employer review + one” model。
With the increased openness of china-south ports, port clearance efficiency has become an important element in optimizing the business environment。
It was described that the hainan border review service promoted service upgrades in three ways: the first is to improve access facilitation, expand the scope of the visa-free country, promote regional connectivity with neighbouring provinces, add additional encrypted international passenger and cargo transport routes and enhance “freedom of movement of persons”; the second is to increase the efficiency of customs clearance at ports, speed up the upgrading of smart clearance facilities and respond to the need for “great-in-large-out” clearance through innovations in intellectual applications, while at the same time optimizing the movement of lines from a passenger perspective and providing fine-tuning guidance services; and the third is to enhance the professionalization of border teams, expand the “multilingual service platform” function and respond to immigration and exit counselling on a 24-hour basis。
Civilian police officers at phoenix border post conduct border checks for incoming passengers. Xinhua society for social development
In order to advance the construction of international tourism consumption centres, the programme of action explicitly supports the development of inbound tourism, the facilitation of international traffic and the upgrading of cross-border facilitation services。
Hainan is accelerating the construction of a physical air route, with 11 new offshore passenger and cargo routes since 2026 reaching 45 cities in our port area and 23 countries, with cargo reaching 7 countries and 7 cities. In the recent past, the province has introduced specific incentive rules to attract people from abroad, from such forces as offshore customer development, consumer environment adaptation, route diversion, etc。
“in order to enhance the convenience of foreigners in the life of the country, the provincial commission has pioneered the `foreign experience officer + multi-validity assessment' model, which monitors the short board of foreign-related services through regularized experience, questionnaires, etc.” the relevant head of the foreign affairs management service of the provincial commission stated that the first round of the evaluation had helped to address the problem of irregularities in the marking of foreign languages and inadequate coverage of external card payments. According to statistics, in april 2026, the level of satisfaction of foreigners with living accommodation in june was 11. 74 per cent higher than in october 2025。
